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I AWAIT "BIG PUSH ;Tommy Atkins Says Deadly j Fighting Will Begin When England Sends Forces. SOLDIERS AMID MUD CLEAN Thorouslmo-s of Work Amazes Cor ; -epondciit Who Visits Trendies as Dullcts Sing nd Grn,an Shells Whix Bj. BY FREDERICK PALME!!. .o-lti tress Correspondent t the Brit. Ih Front In Krance. BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE. via London, March 9. There you are and keep your head '.lown! It Is a fair target at that dis tance." said the officer who had come out of the shelter to meet the news paper correspondents who were being permitted to visit the trenches. The correspondents were in the de fense!! at the edge of a hardwood grove called the Ploepsteert Woods. The British had fought fiercely in order to et possession of this trove for it meant cover- for them. Occasionally, bullets whistled overhead and the wish of German shells, which were belnK fired at something In the rear. hisrher ud. while a hidden Brit ish battery was sending its shells in the opposite direction. Watrbera Ready With Riflea- At intervals in the defenses. thS men were waiting with rifles laid, to plug any moving thing that looked like a "Gerboy." "If a Gerboy helmet appears can you put a hole through it?" was asked of one of the riflemen. "It looks so. They don't put them np very often, sir," was the answer. Two hundred and fifty yards away was a wall of sandbags. The bare field between the two lines was as lifeless as a desert and for all one could see, the German breastwork was not occu pied by a slnele human being. But there, as on the British side, sharp shooters were waiting and olficers were watching through the refracting mirrors of the periscopes. Attack Alivaya Awaited. For three months the trenches have remained in the same position, and tiever a moment in all that time, here as elsewhere along the line, but some one is on the lookout and the reserves re ready for an attack. "Here we will be until the big push comes." say the men. By the "big push" they refer to the movement when the new British force is in the trenches. At night German patrols creep out to s it the British are up to any thing new and the British do likewise. Sometimes some of the men are killed. ' Those who are not on watch are lounging on beds of straw under the timber roofs. To the rear, there are many more shelters where officers and men are quartered. One old South African veteran wai planting prim roses on the ear'h roof of his house. "It is getting primrose time at home in England," he said. Bans; of Guns Mars Peace. TCxrept for the thresh of shells and the bang of the gun.. the scene is most peaceful. When the Germans cut loose ith some thrills of the rapid llre jruns or becin shelling, the men take to their shelters until the storm i over. They are always in danger from snping nd are likely to be called at any minute to suffer heavy losses In repelling an attack. They are vet erans who cease to think of possibil ities. .' "If you are killed, why you are tilled." avs Tommy Atkins. "and what's the use in worrying about It? The mere you worry, the better it p!aes the Germans." ; Krom Mons to Ynres the British reg ular gained familiarity with death. Very proud are the men who have Stuck it through from the time of the British landing until now. When one of- thm was asked about it he said: Must luck, that's all. Maybe I'll get ft from a sniper before this Winter la over." Profanity too foully. At night the work in the neighbor hood of the trenches is done. Across the Arc zone behind the trenches, food ' and timbers and everything needed in the trenches is carried up by hand in a wallow of mud. Yet one hears no one growling or swearirg when it would seem that human irritation must pave an escape valve. "Profanity comes too high," said a soldier. "The Gerboy s may hear you ami turn looae. It may not only cost ou your life, but your pals." Anyone who has been much with the British army on campaign has heard the same remark many times and spoken in the l.inie language: it had a peculiar ap peal. , With darkness falling over the flat country and the buildings becoming shadowy, the correspondents walked away from the cover of a village with tho commanding officer of that sec tion of the front with the rattle of a machine gun growing louder toward the trench. Whenever anyone goes to the front he is bound to hear the ma chine gun, even In this quiet spot of the front. "They can't be firing at any definite object in the dark?" queried a corre spondent. Geraaa Kept Informed. Perhaps perhaps not." the officer replied. "The gun is laid for the top of their trench. We don't hold down the fire too much, as we want the Germans to know we are on deck." "Are we In bullet range yet?" was asked. "Kather 500 yards. That's why we don't walk up in the daytime. The flares you see are doing up from the German trenches." replied the officer. These flares, like Fourth of July rockets, threw a glare over the sodden fields and revealed the faces cf the correspondents and the officer and outlined their figures. "In that way they keep watch to ee that we are not creeping up for an attack." the officer added. .'lea Neat Amidst Mud. Another 300 yards of plunging In mud and the correspondents-descended into the-wet earth behind tiers of sand bags and were walking on a board walk at the bottom of a great ditch, t'tep off that and one sank over bis ankles. The commanding officer pul'.ed aside a curtain and a Lieuten ant came out of his cellar. looking neat enough for a parade. Neatness under any conditions is a point with the Brit ish officer, and he keeps his men up to it. It is amazing how Private Thomas Atkins In this sea of mud keeps dear of It. "If the men get careless of their ap pearance in their habits." soy the officers, "this means carelessness in the trenches, which would be fatal. Thor oughness of detail and industry are of paramount importance In this kind of war." Behind curtains, in the same kind of cellars as the officers occupy, were sol diers lying on board floors in Ifhelr BRITISH ecu hlnnVets above the water line. A sub altern was up for questioning when the A.mmnn.linp' nffinar mmH 1 1 1 1 1 f the altern was up for questioning wnen ine commanding officer found one of the pumps was not workinp. Pumping alone keeps the trenches from being flooded. The commander spoke to every watch- inv man with T-i f 1 tt M D " clftT V STOOd night." and the soldier returned a cheery reply. German Flares Light Sky. On and on in that zigzag ditch in the darkness, slipping off the planks at times, and catching one's self by stretching up the hands for support against the slippery walls, for a mije the visitors proceeded with heads be low the parapet, while the German flares lighted the sky and while the British rapid-fire gun whirred at inter vals and the German snipers made reply. Then the correspondents left the trench and wallowed in the mud back to a point in the road outside the bullet range, where a column of sturdy sol diers was waiting before going up for their turn in the trenches. -Behind them were supplies for the trenches and an ambulance to care for any wounded who had accumulated during the day in the trenches, or those hurt during the entrance of relief parties or the de parture of the men relieved when the German rapid-fire guns sent out a spray of bullets in the hope of finding a target under cover of the night The tired men who come out of the trenches find baths and clean, clothes awaiting them and have notihng to do but rest until they return to the watch, for the British army regards the cure of each man's physical well being as the prime essential.- The trenches to the observer, who sees the British army for the first time, do not supply the most interest ing feature. If one seeks picturesque ness it may be found on the road where the French flank and the Brit ish line Join, where one sees the East Indians, a trotting battery of French artillery, Belgian reservists at work on the road and the British In khaki. In the doorwavs where he is billeted one finds Tommy Atkins trying to talk French with the inhabitants, driving a ble tractor engine made in the I'nited States, riding out to the front in a bus which once plied in London. sitting on the front of an ambulance seat beside the driver when he has nn T v nn arm wound, or poking his head out of a sheli-nroof to see if there is any chance of the rain stop ping in Flanders. His remarks about the weather are vigorous. The extreme thoroughness with which all 1b done makes a more last ing impression. The fastidiousness about sanitation and the treatment of the wounded recall American methods. There seems little unnecessary fight ing to gain any minor advantage in the trenches. Everything seems sub missive to a purpose "when the time comes for the big push," which will see the deadliest fighting of the war. TREE DESPOILER FOUND PRISONER ADMITS HAVIXG RALPH MODJESKTS GROVE CUT. Jesse Sharkey Located by Laborers He Ordered to Do Work, Says He Was Hired by Another Man. Jesse Sharkey, of Sacramento street and Union avenue, arrested Monday, the police say. admits he is the man who ordered workmen to cut down the tjeautlful grove of fir trees on six lots owned by Ilalph ModJesKi. tne promi nent bridge ensrineer, on Knott street, in Irvington. Whether Sharkey acted on his own responsibility in hiring the workmen, without the knowledge of Mr. Modjeski. or whether he had ac complices is a question that will be investigated. He says he was employed for $75 to do the work, but the police doubt his story and question his san ity. When Sir. Modjeski discovered that his $25,non building site had been de nuded of its stately trees, which to him were its chief attraction, he Immedi ately began an investigation through his attorneys. Piatt & Piatt. Three laborers who cut down the trees were not suspected of acting maliciously. They had been told to go to Mr. Mod jeski for the 50 which had been promised to them for doing the work, and they went, apparently In good failh, to fret their money. It was dif ficult to make the laborers realize that they had been duped, but they agreed to aid in finding the man who had hired them. Monday the three workmen told P. L. Fales. an attorney in the firm of Piatt & Piatt, that they had located their employer, who, they said, was Sharkey. He was arrested by Detect ives Grism and Howell on a complaint sworn to by Mr. Fales, charging tres pass. "I didn't trespass, property," was his I wasn't on the comment when taken into custody. Sharkey declared that he had been offered $75 to cut down the trees, the offer coming from a man he didn't know. He said he was a landscape gardener and would lose $2.50 a day if he were locked up. He is 26 years old. The detectives say they are inclined to doubt Sharkey's story. The records show that he was arrested October 14. 1914, on a charge of Immorality, and later examined as to his sanity and released. ABERDEEN MAYOR LOSES M. PHILLIPS, NEWCOMER, NAMED OVER EL'GENE FRANCE. Prohlbitloa lasne Big feat a re of Bitter Primary Campaign, and Caucus Talk Is Heard. ABERDEluN, Wash.. March 9. (Spe cial.) in the warmest primary election ever held in this city, J. M. Phillips, a young attorney and formerly a Bull Moose, defeated by 17 votes Mayor Eu gene France, a pioneer, who was stand ing for re-election on an economy plat form. Mr. Phillips csrried nine out of 16 precincts. The iial vote stood: Phil lips 1394, and France 1377. Automobiles were freely used to get out the vote, and in the closing days the contest grew bitter. The race was In Mr. France's favor until the final returns came in, the last precinct to be heard from giv ing Mr. Phillips more than lno lead .in that precinct. Mr. Phillips carried most of the workingmen's wards. T. II. Hill, for City Treasurer; Peter Clark, for City Clerk, and Glen Snyder, for Foliee Judge, were all renominated. Four of the six Counctlmen standing for re-election- were successful: A. S. Brecht, A. J. Grant, W. J. Egerer and James Empey. R. C. Vandervert lost to W. H. MoWhinney, a newcomer, as did L. D. Evans to H. B. Strong. Mr. Phillips was strongly supported by the dry element, and the dry Issue was made one of the features of the cam paign., v I'iglit Begun on Unlicensed Movies. ?!totlon-picture houses running with out licenses are the object of a search being made by Fire Marshal Stevens. Mr. Stevens found the first violation Monday on the part of the man agers of the Tremont Motion Picture House, Seventy-second street. South east. Upon being informed. Captain Circle ordered the place closed by a patrolman and a warrant will be sworn out by Marshall Stevens. $155,000 LOST Ifj D01-T0I FIRE Jones Cash Store Is Destroyed by Flames Damage to Building Heavy. FIREB0ATS AID IN FIGHT Barrels of Gasoline in Danger Are Pumped in Willamette; Horses Are Rescued; Revival of Earlier Blaze Adds to Work. Fire Monday night gutted the three story briek building occupied by Jones Cash Store, a mail-order house, SO Front street, corner of Oak, causing the en tire loss of the stock, valued by H. J. Ottenheimer, president of the company, at $125,000. Smoke and water caused considerable loss to goods in the store of M. L. Kline, wholesale plumbing, 84 Front street, the adjoining premises. The Jones Cash Store Jias insurance of approximately $100,000 and the loss to Mr. Kline, which he could not es timate up to a late hour, is covered fully bv insurance. Loss to the building, which is owned by the Failing estate and Reed College, will amount probably to $30,000, which Is covered by insurance. Interior Badly Damaged. The extent to which the building is damaged will not be known until the walls cool and can be inspected. The brick parts of the structure seemed intact, although the interior woodwork was mostly consumed. The roof was burned-through in the rear. The fire was discovered at 10:27 P. AI, by James Markell. employe of Rice & Phelan, a hardware firm just across the street, who was helping unload a carload of wire. He heard a window break in the Jones store and thought of burglars. Investigation showed the place to be afire. He hurried to the police station, two blocks away, and Officer Holland turned in a still alarm at the flrehouse adjoining. Flreboata Aid Department. A large part of the city's fire-fighting equipment was hurried to the blaze and the two fireboats, David Campbell and George H. Williams, poured streams of water from the river. The rear end of the building, on the bank of the river, burned fiercest and the work of the fireboats, which turned their searchlights onto the structure through the smoke, made a spectacular sight for East Side people and the crowds which lined the near by docks. Chief Dowel!, of the fire department, Assistant Chief LaudenKIos and bat talion Chief Young directed the work of the firemen. By midnight the blaze was well under control. - Tho fire was kept from spreading to a-.ljoining build ings, although workmen at the Ameri can TvDefounders' Company, at the south end of the block, fearing it would spread in their direction, rolled 18 drums of gasoline into the river to prevent the fire reaching them. They can Da from tho bottom of the stream. Horses Are Rescued. Officers Harms, Martin and Morris rescued three horses belonging to A. Turtledove, a drayman, which were stabled on a lower dock at the rear of tho burning building. A small quan tity of harness, valued at not over $100, was burned, but this is covered by in surance. President Ottenheimer, of the Jones -h Store, could not understand how the fire started, as the fur nace is near the front of the building and the flames were first seen in the rear. The stock is made up of miscel laneous goods of almost every descrip tion and offered splendid fuel for the flames. In the adjoining Btore of M. L. Kline Miss Ethel Cohn, an employe, worked with Mr. Kline and H. R. Roberts, his brother-in-law, putting away record and papers where they would be safe from the water that dripped down from the adjoining building. The basement was well filled, but Mr. Kline said his business would not be interfered with in any way. Mr. McCalman. of Failing & Mc Calman Company, hardware dealers next door, said his store was not af fected in any way. While the fire was at its height, a blaze at the Morgan Paper Company. 230 Second street, which was thought extinguished early Monday, broke out again but was put out by one company in a few minutes. The fire had been smouldering in 10 carloads of paper in the basement which could not well be removed- 150-FOOT LEAP. DUE TO WAR Briton Twice Wrecked Financially Ignores Pastor's Plea to Live. LOS ANGELES. Cal.. March 9. Wrecked financially a second time by war when the European struggle, fol lowing the Mexican revolutionary strife, swept away his investments, John W. Reid, ex-general manager of a Brit ish oil.concern, leaped 150 feet to death from the roof of a hotel here yesterday. Letters he left prove that he chose death as a means to assure his wife, Lillian, of funds through a $10,000 life insurance policy. Before ending his life Reid tele phoned his pastor, Rev. E. P. Ryland, of his intention. Rev. Mr. Ryland begged him to aban don his intention, or at least wait un til a talk could be had. The minister prayed aloud over - the telephone for some time, but Reid declined to change his mind. Reid attempted suicide at the same hotel December 10. Before taking the leap Reid selected a coffin and a burial plot. ST. PATRICrSFETE FIXED California Society Committee Plans Programme for March 1 7. As a result of the committee meeting of the California Society of Oregon in room B of the Central Library Mon day, a St. Patrick's day ptogianme of cards, dancing and refreshments will be held in the Masonic Temple on March 17. plans to increase the membership were acted upon and a campaign is to SEE THAT The Correction of Defective Eyesight It is very important that you have implicit faith in the ability of your optician, since there are several important features which must be left solely to his ability and honor. You cannot possibly appreciate the quality of lenses furnished, and yet on this feature depends the degree of satisfaction to be obtained from the use of glasses. In our optical work we frequent ly find people wearing inferior and imperfect lenses, for which they have paid a full price. We will not economize in this in stance, for we always insist on furnishing the best materials at prices that are reasonable. We believe you will be satisfied with the service, the prices asked and with the results ob tained. THOMPSON OPTICAL INSTITUTE Second Floor Corbett Bldg. Fifth and Morrison. be started soon. Representatives of the following committees were present: Ex ecutive, membership, programme and publicity. The representatives selected tho following- women to arrange for the refreshments: Mrs. E. Byron, Mrs. R. F. Feemster. Mrs. George Seeligr, Mrs. Will lam O. Spencer. Mrs. F. 1). Beal, Mrs. C. I. Dolliver and Miss J. H. Uoone, STORAGE APPLES MOVING Government Kinds Firms Withhold Holdings Information. WASHINGTON. March 1. According to investigations conducted by tne or flee of Markets. United States Depart ment of Agriculture, there was an in crease in the movement of cold stor age apples during January as compared with December. It is impossible to sive the total quantities of boxes and barrels in storage on February l. be cause many firms withhold information as to their holdings. However, It l thought that a sufficient number are co-operating with the Office ol Mar kets to warrant conclusions as to the total movement throughout the country. Basing estimates upon tho returns from a large number of commercial apple cold storages and granting the conditions for this number are repre senttitive of the whole, it appears (1) that holdings on February 1. 1915. were 28.4 per cent greater than on the same date two years ago; (2) that 2a.2 per cent of the total holdings have been moved since December 1, the decrease of barreled stock being 28.4 per cent and boxes -1 per cent; 3) that during January 17 per cent of barreled apples and 10.6 per cent of boxed apples were taken out of cold storage, the total de crease on the basis of holdings Decem ber 1 being 15.6 per cent. It was not thought that the demand for cold storage apples In January would be much greater than in De cember, owing to the fact, as pointed out in a previous report, that the large supply of common storage stock, to gether with Christmas purchases, would restrict the movement of apples from cold storage during last month. The attention of those interested is called again to the fact that practi cally all common storage apples, as a rule, pass Into consumption by the first of February. If this condition has been true of the present season, it thought that the movement of cold storage apples will be very large dur ing February and March. The supply certainly Is bountiful and, as the result of low prices and a large demand, it is thought the consumption during tne next few months will be sufficient to exhaust the supply. The advisability of moving the stocks as rapidly as possible is urged upon growers and dealers, so that the unusually large holdings may diminish sufficiently to prevent disaster in April or May. NEWS ITEM REGAINS CAR Orion E. Goodwin's Machine Is lie- covered by Kancher. Orton E. Goodwin, publicity man, lost an automobile Sunday night. The Oregonian Monday carried a news item on the theft. Elmer Lelsman, rancher, near Wil lamette, Or., saw the item, and when ho went out to do his morning chorea he found the machine only a few yards from his barn. The City Marshal of West Linn was telephoned to and took the automobile to Oregon City. Dep uty Sheriffs Christof fersen and Hill were in Oregon City and volunteered to drive the machine to Portland. Mr. Goodwin was notified upon its arrival at the Courthouse and found it intact. none the worse for having been stolen. FIRE DOES $12,000 DAMAGE Karly Morning Blaze Siccus Mor gan Paper Company. Damage approximating $12,008 was caused by an early morning fire that swept the Morgan Paper company store at 230 Second street and the smoke that penetrated the corridors and rooms of the Hotels Kenilworth and Valley above. .Spontaneous com bustion in the rolls of paper stored in the basement is thought responsible for the blaze. The complete stock of the paper com pany was destroyed, a loss of about $10,000 mostly covered by insurance. Fifty guests in the hotels were roused from their beds and escaped through the smoke-choked corridors. MOTHERS ASK INSURANCE Maternity Policies Proposed by Illi nois Ilisk Commissioner. CHICAGO, Feb. 25. Maternity insur ance, with limitations. ior imnois mothers was urged recently oy um cago women. t has been proposeo Dy niu m. Potts. State Fire Insurance commis sioner, in a special report to Governor Dunne. . ;" iThere's Only An Honest Trade Watch for Our General Clearing Sale r CHCRCH'S CONCORD GRAPE J I ICE. The standard of purity, from sun-mened grapes grown in Hie famous vineyards of Kennewick a Coast product. Full pints, ilozen bottles. $2.75. Quarts, $-1.75. Fine for the.ble. basque! or ulckroom. Phone today. We deliver free. "ESY" DYE A paste in a tube every shade, every color. Works like magic. No acids, no salt. A child can use it. Tube, lac ST. PATRICK'S DAY DECORATIONS. and Interesting. 10c Sassafras Bs.rk 3 lbs. -Moth Balls H.vC Pint Cod Liver Oil 50C J lb. 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The Premier, in a reply to General Morra's remarks, said that, although it might be "with anguish." all Italians would do their duty with God's help, under the King's orders for the glory of the fatherland. Many of those present expressed the opinion that the words "with anguish" meant that negotiations to have the Italian national aspirations satisfied and the country's rights recognized had failed and that thus there must be re course to other means to attain the object. Premier Salandra received an ovation. The enthusiasm reached its climax when Monsignor Niola. archbishop of Gaeta. while they were in the cathedral. waved before the premier the sacred flag of the Venetian fleet, which in 1571 triumphed over the Turks at Le panto. The return of the Premier to Rome was a triumphal procession, the crowds acclaiming him at each station. At Cessa one person cried "viva neutral ity." The Premier leaned from the win dow of his car and retorted: "No, friends, cry with me 'Viva Italy.' 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KA .... ,1,-tiL'n nn llm A moment, inci in' - edge of the bed. took the woman s hand and said: "Don t cry, nine are so doggoned -good looking I can t help telling you about It. II would he a pity to rob such a beauty. Sleep well.'' . . Tho burglar left the house, but Ins ...... r,- li called ti.t rcpciiiMiii v., --- two other houses nd stole 16"0 worin of jewelry anil vaiuames. YOUNGER IS JILTED Millionaire Kmplojcr Weds Hen.l of Hcparlnient In His Store. UT1C V N V.. Feb. 25. lohn A. Koh orts. millionaire merchant, and Mss Gertrude A. Wood, brad of h PH''t mcnt in his store, were married he e. the bridegroom being 74 years old and his bride 40. ... Roberts had been attentive to Ins em. ployc for a long time. Recently Miss Wood obtained a licence to marry Will lam G White, of Buffalo, and arrange ments were made for the '"""J""', Two days later Hubert announced his engagement to Miss W ood. The jilted man is about the same aue as the handsome Mrs. Roberts. "MOCK" MARRIAGE REAL Unwilling Bridegroom Sues .Man Who Arranged Ceremony. . .hi v rtvTv 'J5. John BINGHAM 1 '-. , . .... R Andrews, aged 25. has started legal A...' ... ....r damages from him married wnnuui m- - - -- Andrews ana miss v.i . .j i .., thev thoutrht was participated ot . rhlir.i, a mock marriage ,r..... , ' social at Tioga recently. A regular n cense was secured from the Town fieri and a J""" of tnc PH..'e ST'TTT the ceremony, much to the delight o the audience 0estio, whether the marriage was legal or not, Stamp, S & H of Ladies' Handbags :sr, 50 extra stamps we framing rtlor of Or or mnrr flhln I He Thin Coupon. " 1 1 1 M F.XTK A ST AM I t Ol I'OV Present tills coupon at nr Km mine pertinent, second floor, mid roroiw. ." c tra S A- M. (Jreon TrnaJmf Stampf will, any rush, framing order amount inic 1 or over. Jood all this week -March BOYS! - mm Line ITxifiii? PLAY BALL Kallw I-inc Maynnrd Gloves ' need at vour hand. Moin Se1i'l , 4'oitHt K l.nuteii i a ml Kio er. I h v ii sirkles. Trow cIm. Oinpei Kai lunn-niou-fr hnrpcurr, " prartleal. Tic Veloute Face Powder (K. Adonis. Taris) JVO 1711 Pure Almond So.-io, lr 13C 2 for 25C Sue Stillman s lieckle Cream !.' 1c Sapollo lite lion Ami JI.50 Oriental Cream ?!' Co j at West Park Alarmed. Andrews, who Is engaged M another girl, hurried to the court. The court ruled the marriage ns legal and refused an annulment. Springer was in charge of the festivities. TURKISH DEFEAT GROWS Nine Hundred Killed our Ahwiit and on Western I'lanU. LONPON. March . In a ftati-inenl regarding the recent flghtinn hetwern I'.rltlsh troops and Turkish forces al the head of the Persian Gulf, the oltleial pri-ss bureau h-aid: "rne. enemy's hisses near Ah was (in Kliusistan) oil March were heavier than previously reported. Six hundred were killed and many were wounded. In the action on the western flunk the enemy lost ni n killed " THE HEADACHE OF NERVOUS EXHAUSTION A frelinK a f ticltt bund about tbi bond Ik ofln IV 11 In nrldtlion to the ruin of a hculftftic tbat In canned by mirvous Nhaut Ion. Th nrh 1 generally In tho lun'k of th bend, r.irrly In tlif forohiNid, nnd Is often conipaniv by dU'iii-. The wny t( slot t'us port of lid-fli-hei Is .i Mop t' r.mf of H. Over work, worry and failure of lno blood to liropcrly no'irlfh the rrv ar thi tntt rommon rwiiMv. Itrt nnd a lonlf for (h blood nnd nnrn will rnu. t ho licadarhe to rli.api'ar In niinl J r. WiMiani.s' I'inK I'iII.i r nn tt frrtive fonb- for Ini ldintc up tho b1ol nnd MrensrthpniiiK tho iicrvn. Tliy f u rn Inn Jn.vt f h i; piemen t n t bn t (In blood needs to build Up liM'Va.s hat I ered by overwork, wihtv, ovtr sludy or pxi'h fen. Voii rnniiot hIuuj.i rest front .-i-tutol. f f Ion or boue work when nu mm a ni'ew rrT'i Ire but you ran nlwuys take .1 tunic that will main tain tln MrenKth of blood and nerve. Ir. Williams' Fink ViUn are ju."t tho tonic required. Mention iliis paper and we will rend yon a booklet, "li-eac of tbe Nervon System" fie. Add re.: Dr. William Medleine Co.. Srnene.-tndy. N. Y. All driiirxiNi Ir. W MhamV Pink T'illa SYXOrsiS OK TUB ANNUAL STATEMENT OK Tllli NATION ALE f lmrlM of i 7 Ojs ai Homo ar reel, Tr t d? he, tn the Stat cf KiK"l Island, on lno lt dv Ot DfCmliT, 1914. IllH'Jo tu tint InKtir!" Com misstuit'jr of lite ol Oregon, put euHnL to law : Capital. Amount of capital paid up I 701. i 4 Income. Net premiums rcv-ixd during1 th yer $ In U rust, d-Mvicno and rents re ceived during the ." Zt.ilZ.ii Income from other sources re ceived during the year AJ.ti Total income I 01.0.4 Dlebureemenis. Net Ios paid during tho year. I 17J.144 H CuiitmiMfeione Mtid eaiaries pid during the ear J,S4.sii Ta i.t;B, lie? ii. s and fee paid during the year t,b&Z.9l Amount of ak other expendi tures 10.7U.1J Tulal expenditure I ;'i3,JUl 1 Anet. Vilun oT sloi-ks aiid bonds owned ma. 1 i it I tic I 1 4.t.2!0, tO Mlwolliiiieou feth . a, Jfrv.os. "ah in banks and on nana. . . ift.dv.. Premiums in rovire of conction Mrltluli since deptvmber 5u. i:h4 io:,4;c.$ Interest and rents due and c tcrucd - . J Total assets $ IM.iOi P Iess sptai dMstts in any ai4te i'.t any there be 10.S44.M Total assets admitted In Ore gon I lOI.Oto.lo Liabilities. ;roas claims for loss unpaid. 4,s4.41 Amount, of unearned premiums ou ail OUiiauuiUB r.n&i iv.t.vA.ii Du! for uouiinission an 4 broker age L3U7 AM other Hah Utile lu.UJ.il Balances due reinsuring com pany under treaty Total- liabilities exclusive? of capital ait", a vi w '"" Total premiums In force lecrm- ber 31. 11 :2.4M Bu hi a a i n O rr g on f o r the ea r. Total rlka written during the war tl. 31.441 . Gi i)s prtm turns recci ed dur ing the jcar ,4l. H Premiums returned during the yesr; it i u r n e a pmiwi"". .i7r.4 4. n)-lnurarieg prc nilum. lo04.04 Lsres paid during; the yar ilt 44"M loes Incurred durfna; tho er 1.6S7.11 Total amount r ri omiurn- ing in OivjiMt iei em our i. mt i:.3;i bT.VRKW KATHEK & MTKPLr.Y. I in led Males M rs. By F.M1L. ti. IlV:ri;it, fcupt of Agencies. Statutory reaident gcnrrsl agent and at torney for service. -'. .Uf Da a. i iviv r.nral Aaenta. 301 Yeoa BlUg , Portlaud, or. Hi.scl.fill til I rj 17c ....S3o Jtt . 1 . 7. rfTTfc r Amntenr Gardener, k r