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4 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1912 THE HOOD RIVER iWS nsusaio wbdnsboat noaNtNua it MOOO RIVEK NEWS COMPANY, Inc. Hood Rivma. Ouooh R. B DENNETT. U a. BENNETT Emros. .... Bi-inks Managcs Subscription, $1.50 a Year in Advance Kntcrad as Mond-lu matter. F. h. 10. at lh pot otTic at Hood Rirer. Oregon, undat tb Act of March . 18TS. CHRISTMAS "This is Christmas. Not nuTtly the time to exchange gifts, light the Christmas candles, and sing carols, but Christmas, the time of peace and good will toward men. "We need Christmas. It is the one season of the year when we rise above our cares and worries and live in a higher, holier atmosphere. "When gratitude and love and good fellowship reign. When bells peal, and children laugh, and everyone is glad. When every suow flake that falls seems to speak of purity, peace and good cheer. 'Christmas. "The whole world pins its faith to Christmas. The whole world feels its pulse quicken, its heart beats faster, and its soul buoyed up with that feel ing of ineffable peace that Christmas brings. "This is Christmas. Smile, spread the good cheer, forgive, be grateful, and give. Give of the bounties that have been bestowed upon you. Give of your friendship, of your affections. Give if you can give nothing else, a smile, a word of cheer. But give. In no other way can you enjoy the true Christmas spirit. In no other way can you fittingly pay tribute to Him whose birthday this indeed is." THE COUNTY LIBRARY Much credit is due the Woman's Club for the success with which the efforts to secure a Carnegie Library have been crowned. The club took cognizance about a year ago of the city's and county's lack of library facil ities and undertook the work of estab lishing such a preliminary to securing an appropriation from Mr. Carnegie. It was through the club's efforts that the excellent site, now- used as a city park, was secured, and it was they who obtained the appropriations from the city and county. Since thi establishment of the li brary here Miss Northey has been ac tive in arousing interest throughout the county and extending its sphere of usefulness. Nine branch libraries have been established and with the growth i ihe library here and the constructor of the new building the entire county system will increase in efficiency. Oth er public-spTited citizens have co-op erated w-i the women in this pro ject and it should be a matter for h 'arty congratulations that they have succeeded so well In performing this signal service for the community. DISCREDITING THE LAW Hardly less shocking than the ex posure of the police ring In New York was the perversion of Justice in the case of John H. Hall of Portland who was last week pardoned by President Taft upon recommendation from the department of justice. For eight years Hall has been living under the cloud of the charges brought against him at the instigation of Francis J. Heney in order it now transpires, to satisfy a small personal spite of Mr. Heney's. This spite was actuated by the fact that Hall, as United States district attorney, refused to prosecute men against whom there was no evidence of guilt. In order to wreck his petty revenge Heney secur ed Hall's Indictment and subsequent conviction by methods which would make justice hide her face in shame, Because Hall refused to assist in be smirching the name of an innocent man his own name was dragged in the dirt, and under the name of Justice. No more scathing indictment could be brought against Heney than this, that he used the instruments of Just ice, the most sacred rights that exist under our popular government, to per petrate the crime which was commit ed against Hall. PARCELS POST CHANGES It is a big job which Uncle Sam has ' undertaken in the establishment of the parcels post, which goes into effect next week. It will mean a tremendous Increase in the amount of matter handled in the postoffices, by the rural carriers and by the railroads. It means the establishment of a system as big and complicated as the express business aand indeed the postofflce dc partment has undertaken to compete to a considerable extent with these private corporations. The success of this step will depend largely upon the ease with which the public learns the details of the new service and con forms to the regulations without pro test and without making the labors of the postal service more wearisome than need be. In order to get at the cost of such a service as the parcels pout, con gress has decreed that all packages mailed under the system must carry special stamps. The ordinary stamps will not avail. Where used they will be wasted. That is the first thing Well Nigh Impossible to Reform Vagrant Rich By ROSE PASTOR STOKES. Wife of J. C. Phelps Stokes. Millionaire Socialist X T seen WELL XIGII IMPOSSIBLE TO REFORM TILE VAGRANT RICH!" The church may find reform. Ilia unearned profits aro not thereby affected. One faith may look ns good to him as another. lie may FOLLOW ANY TROPIIET WHO WONT INTERFERE WITH HIS PROFIT. Were it to become a question of choice between prophets and profits you may trust tho rich man to choose the latter every time. Yes; tho church may find the rich man an easy subject for re form, so far as religion in its narrow, average, ordinary meaning is concerned. Why, the whole world could reform tho rich man if the process DIDN'T INVOLVE niS UNEARNED INCOME. Just let any one try to reform tho rich in ways that would involve the necessity of even so little as turning his evergreen dividend into deciduous dollars and he'll learn that they'd rather die than yield to reform. Why is it so! Ask why it has been so in all the ages; why those not toiling, but living on the toil of others, have refused to reform in thi3 one particular; why in the past tho toilers, DRIVEN TO SEEK REFORM by hunger and want and overwork, were impelled to revolution through the UNREFORM ABILITY OF THE RICH. K X X THE RICH ARE VAGRANTS. STATISTICAL DATA ON THE TERRI TORY BOTH BY SEA AND LAND THAT THE RICH COVER IN A YEAR WOULD BE ILLUMINATING READING. THEY ARE EVER ON THE WING. WHY SHOULDN'T THEY BE? THERE IS NOTHING TO TIE THEM DOWN TO ANY ONE SPOT OF THE EARTH'S SURFACE. Industry gets along altogether without them, and since the indus trious pay their enormous tolls to tho unproductive rich and the far thest corners of the earth are open to them that have tho price WHY SHOULDN'T THEY BE VAGRANT ? Why, they couldn't be ex pected to be anything else. for the public to learn and to get fixed in memory. Again, parcels must be mailed at certain stations to be designated in each city having delivery systems. Mailing parcels in the ordinary mail boxes will mean just so many lost parcels. Except upon rural routes postmen are not to carry packages to the postofflce save from the parcels post stations. This is another thing to remember. Again all parcels mailed under the parcels post must carry return cards Last, but not least important of all, the public must remember that the parcels post supercedes the present system for the carriage of fourth-class matter. It will not avail to protest that you've always used ordinary stamps, that you've always mailed your packages in the most convenient place and that you've never had to consider the distance your articles were sent. The changes are hard and fixed by law, and, willing as the mem bers of the postal service may be to do so, they are not empowered to set the new rules aside. The Departing Year One more year will soon be planted in the tomb of time, enchanted, where so many sl?ep; one more year is old and hoary, reeling on its way to glory, while we watch and weep. How the days go cally-hootlng! How the years go whizzing, scoot in like a herd of deer! New Year Bells scarce cease their pealing ere the year they hailed is reeling feebly to its bier! Age Is creeping on us grim ly, and we view the future dimly through a mist of tears; how the win try days remind us we have left our youth behind us, all the golden years! But cheer up! Though days are fly ing there Is time In each for trying to do something good! Though the years are hustling ever, each gives time for strong endeavor at our pile of wood. Let Old Time keep up his hik ing, we our load shall take; and when comes the silent reaper we won't give a groan or peep or cheap excuses make. Walt. Mason. "Schmile" Schmlle and the world sthmlleg mlt you; Laugh und the vorld vlll roar; H owl, und the vorld vlll leaf you, Undt nefer come back any morp; For all of us couldn't peen handsome, Nor all us vear goot clothes; ut a schmlle was not exbenslve, Undt covers a vorld of woes. Brains. A 5 w tho rich man an easy subject for ORCHARD ECONOMICS ARE TOJE TAUGHT In the short course at tho Oregon Agricultural College, opening January 6, a new course in orchard economics open only to those who have had pre vious training under Proffessor C. I. Lewis, will be given. "Uutil now our energies have been centered on fruit production," said Professor Lewis. "As crops increase and the price fluctuates, one of the greatest problems will be that of low ering the cost of production. "This course deals with that very thing. We first study land values, the cost of clearing, preparation, staking, planting and tillage. Then we take up the cost of cover crops, pruning, thinning and handling the crop. "There will be laboratory exercises in orchard platting, the relation of the location buildings to orchard econo mics and management. Training is to be given in planning and construct ing packing houses. The class will meet every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons throughout the four weeks of the short course. Besides new advanced courses, some 40 lectures covering basic principles of horticulture will be given twice a day, in the new course on principles of fruit growing. It covers such practical matters as the choice of proper land, Its preparation for plant ing, staking systems, planting, tillage, orchard fertility, cover crops, shade crops, commercial fertilizers, manures and composts, mulching, pruning, thin ning, pollination and frost fighting. The bur.iness side of fruit growing will be covered with special series of lectures. One In apple growing Jan. 13-16 inclusive will deal with the hist ory and future of this fruit, with spe cial Instruction as to varieties. In the same way at the same time another series of lectures will deal with the growing tf prunes. Pear growing lectures will be given Jan. 21-24 In culslve, those on cherries Jan. 9-10 Inclusive, and on nuts Jan. 24 and 29. Wanted Men nnd women to learn WHtchiiinkln nnd enKnivlnK. few inontliH only lefirtilnir. Practical work from utart. 1'onltlons tweured for jcraduatea. I'rnntlciil trade not overdom. Write for nartlculnrs. Watchmaking .School, 210 (ilolie Building, Portland, Ore. 4.'!tfc Santa remembered well the Hood Klver children. UNITED 3a DIVIDED WE i . M WE STAND FALL KELLY BROS. MAY OATS Rolled Barley, Bran, Shorts and Straw Phone Fourth Street between Oak and State ROBT. T. NEWHALL Telephone 277-N Hood liver, Oregos REPRESENTING MILTON NURSERY CO. THIRTY-THREE YEARS OK RELIABLE TREES C. G. VAN TRESS Public Stenographer AND Notary Public ELIOT BLOCK Phone 308-L W. J. BAKER Real Estate Loans Insurance APPLE AND STRAWBERRY LAND A SPECIALTY Correspondence Solicited WE FURNISH FRUIT PICKERS AND PACKERS And All Kinds of Employees... NIGUMA & CO. Phone 160 14 East Oak Street Hood River. Or. CQALI Rock Springs COAL TRANSFER & LIVERY COMPANY Cottage Kospital Hood River's Medical In stitution. Open to the public for the treatment of Medical and Surgical cases. Rates on applica tion. Address, COTTAGE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION Kent 2. Garrabrant Confectionery, Cigars Fishing Tackle Spaulding's Sporting Goods All Kinds of Soft Drinks Oak Street, oppoaite Smith Block. Hood Rirer BramatVs Stomach Powder Will afford POSITIVE RKLIEP In nearly all cases of Stomach Dis orders occasioned by Indigestion or Chronic Dyspepsia Also good for Slcjt Headache and Constipation, Bloating, Belching of Gas, Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Ca tarrh of Stomach or Intestinal tract and Nervous Dyspepsia Also effective In restoring the stomach to normal tone following excesses of eating or drinking. IT HAS NO LQUAL f or sale at ALL DRUG STORES Australia likes our apples. J. F. WATT, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon Office, Hone Phone SO Roe. 30-B Hood River :: Oregon Dr. M. II. Sharp Dr. Edna B. Sharp DRS. SHARP Osteopathic Physicians Graduates of the American School of Osteopathy, Kirkeville, Mix Office in Eliot Huildina Phone-OtUce lei Residence 102-B. - Huud River. Orea-un E. D. KANACA Physician and Surgeon Office in National Bank Building Phone, Office 35 Res. S8-B Hood Rirer, Oregon H. L. DUMBLE Physician and Surgeon Calls promptly answered in town or country, day or night. Telephones-Residence 611. Jfflce 61S. Oltice in the Urueiua Building. DR. E. O. DUTRO Physician and Surgeon Office In Smith Building Hours 1 to 4 p. m. by appointmentphone 71 Res. Lewis House. Udell Phone Odell 1113 Calls promptly answered in country day or night DR. MALCOLM BRONSON Physicians and Surgeons Eliot Block Phone 34 Hood River. Oregon C. H. JENKINS, D. M. D. Dentist Office. Hall Building, over Butler Banking Co. Office phone 28. Residence phone 28-B Hood River, Oregon II. Dudley W. Pinco, D. D. S. Dentist ' Office 4. 1 and 6. Smith Bldg. Office Home phone 131. Residence Home 131-B Hood River. Oregon DR. JUSTIN WAUGH Eliot Building EAR, EYE, NOSE AND THROAT M. E. WELCH Licensed Veterinarian Hood River. Oregon JOHN BAKER Attorney at Law Rooms 7-8, Smith Block Office phone 1S8-K tr J ry: rv House phone nuvu luvei, uic, STEARNS & DERBY Lawyers First National Bank Building Hood River, Oregon rhone 309 Rooms 9-10, Smith Block GEORGE R. WILBUR LAWYER Hood Klver ireffon ERNEST C. SMITH LAWYER Rooms U and 15. Unit Building Hood River. Orwron L. A. & A. P. REED ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW Two Doors North of Poatoffice Phone 41 Hood River' Oregon MURRAY KAY CIVIL LNOINELR AND SURVEYOR Phoni 32 Brosius Buildino Hood River L. A. HENDERSON Surveyor and Civil Engineer Formerly U. S. Land Surveyor Philippine Islands Two doors north of poatoffice. Phone 41 P. M. MORSE City Engineer and Surveyor CITY AND COUNTY WORK Heilbronner Building Hood River, Oregon A. C. BUCK Notary Public and Insurance Agent Room 12. Brosius Block Hood River, Oregon C. M. HURLBURT SURVEYO Telephone 3342-M R. R. BARTLETT ARCHITECT Ilollbronner Building HOOD RIVER. OREGON Phone 61 Oregon Lumber L WHOLESALE and RETAIL LARGE Band Sawed Lumber on Hand WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT REASONABLE FIGURES CEDAR POSTS CEDAR SHIP LAP and SHJNGLES Estimates Furnished. Call on Either Phone DEE, OREGON Hood River Banking & Trust Co. Extends a cordial invitation to you, personally to call and open a checking account. Any amount will open an account in our savings department. We pay 3 per cent interest, compounded semi-annually. We promise the best of service and satisfaction. M. M. Hill, W. W. Remington, R. W. Pratt, President, Vice President, Cashier C. H. Stranahan, , Wilson Fike Capital $100,000- FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON FASHION Livery, Feed jj ft Lftls.itVi.'si.Usiehl. rj (0 Hj Stanley- Wholesale and ' Retail Lumber, Ci,4-l Lath, Shingles OlTI XID Etc. Lumber delivered to F llrrlh anypartof the "" Valley Co. Gle arc now taking ordcro for Hpplc Boxes 5tan(ey-Sniiti 11111601 Co. )(ocfi Hiver, Oregon PAena 134 STOCK OF Surplus $30,000 START THE NEW YEAR by opening an account with this bank. Don't simply resolve to do so, but come and do it. After you have experienced the con venience, safety and advantage of such an account for a while, you'll wonder why you hadn't opened one before. And the satisfaction is as great for those who open small accounts as for those whose affairs are larger. STABLES and Draying STRANAHANS & RATHBUN H00O RIVER, OREGON Horses bought, sold or ex- changed. Pleasure parties can secure first class rigs. Sbecial attention given to moving fur niture and pianos. We do everything horses can do. J 1