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TACK SIX ASHLAND TINITOfl Monday, August 20, 101T THE TORPEDO SPEAKS. OUR MARINE CORPS. Tails Its Own Story of lU Doings In War and Peace. Well, well, well I am surprised I With all the notoriety that I have gained and the destruction that I have caused that nobody would tell you what I am made of and what I am cnpnlile of doing - I am twenty-one feet In length and twenty-one Inches lu diameter, and or dinarily I am assembled la three parts known as the tall and afterbody, the flunk and the bead. My tall contaius the machinery which turns the propel lers that force me through the water; the flask carries my fuel In the form of compressed air that sends me on my mission of destruction and when I start, woe unto them who may be lu my path, for I am the most dreaded weapon that ever sailed the seven seas. I cost $0,000 and can run for 10,000 yards before my energy Is used up, traveling that distance at the rate of about fifty feet per second. I am a monster made of forged nickel steel and weigh 2,000 K)unds and have tur I inc.- engines, wlilih are capable of mak ing 1,7(10 revolutions per minute. In my head I carry u high explosive call ed guncottou, which explodes upon con. tact. In times of pence, when I am prac ticed with, the guncottou Is taken out of my head and water Is substituted to compensate for Its weight. W ien have been tired In practice and have made my run and expended all my energy I have lost snlllclent weight to float to the surfuce until I am picked up, recharged and reflred. A. Freed, Gunner's Mute, U. S. N., in Washing ton Star. It la THEY FEAST ON SNAKES. A Queer People With Queer Tastet Ara the Philippine Pygmiee. nigh up on the slopes of Mount Marl- Teles, in the Philippine Islands, dwell the last remnants of an aucleut and most mysterious race, the Negritos, or "little negroes." ScjeutLsts differ hope. lessly as to their origin and history, but the traveler who Is fortunate enough to penetrate Into their carefully hidden Tllluges finds the quaint little people extremely interesting. Though disinclined to work, the Ne grito is Indefatigable In the chase. lie will hunt nil day without eating any thing but the mango or banana that he seizes as he rushes by. If dogs are scarce for any reason women are pressed into service, and these go lop lng through the brush, yelping in Imi tation of the canines. Sometimes a beater will emerge from the brush carrying a pig be has encoun tered and 'killed or, more important still, bringing news of the sighting of a python. In this case the whole hunt is called lu and Us energies directed to the capture of the big snake, which when killed is carried hi triumphal pro cession to the village, where It fur nishes a feast. World Wide Magazine, An Intereating Teat of Wits. A game that affords fun und an in teresting test of wits is "your native town." At a party it will tide over any dull momenta that threaten. Pro vide the players with paper and pencils and ask them all to write the places of their birth. Then give them a limited time In which to make a sentence con sisting of words that begin with the letters in the name of the town and follow the same order. For example, if the city Is Baltimore, then the sentence might be, "Behold, a large towu lu Maryland, old, rich, en terprising!" The more aptly descriptive of the town the better is the sentence. At the end of a specified time have the players read their sentences, and, it you wish, award a prize to the best one. Youth's Comiiaulon. Igorrote Dog Eaters. During our trip through the Philip pines we visited the dog market, where the Igorrotes bought and sold half starved canines with visions of a great feust off the protruding ribs. The Igor rotes are about as much like the cultur ed Filipinos as they are like cultured Americans or cultured Japanese.. But the fact that the Igorrotes eat dogs has done as much to prejudice us against the Filipinos as has the story that the Chinese eat rats to turn us against the well bred Chinese, who not only do lot eut rats, but even have a distaste for caviar and limburger. Maynard Owen Williams In Christian Herald. High Prices. In Son Francisco in 1819 clerks In stores and offices had munificent sala ries. Five dollars a dny was the small est stipend even hi the custom house, and one preacher was paid $10,000 a year. Laborers received $1 an hour. A pick or a shovel was worth $10 and a butcher's knife -:iO. At one time the carpenters, who were getting $12 a flay, struck for $10. But U should be noted that prices were exceedingly high also. When Youth's Life le Shaped. . The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world V Nonsense. It only han dles the material. The time of the shaping of life Is from twelve to eight een years old. That Is the formative period. All great educators know that. Professor Earl Barnes. Ita Kind. "I hear Bangs Is petting on so well that he gave his wife a machine." "He's getting on so well because he gave her the machine. It Is a washing machine." Bultlmore American. Great men are they who see that spiritual Is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world. Imerson. a Fully Equipped All Around Efficient Little Army. Do you know the definition of the word "corps?" If you do your advan tage over the man hi the street Is con siderable, for the word in Itself signi fies a large fighting force so completely equipped in ail branches that it can act as an independent army. And thut Is what our murine corps Is a fully equip ped little army, representing infantry, cavalry, artillery, slguul service, engi neers, machine gun men, aviators and hospital service. 4 The varied nature of the murine's duties is reflected In the dress uniform, his dearly prized "blues." Thu trousers nre the color of the Infantryman's, but the stripe is red, like that on the uni form of the artillery. His coat Is a dark nautical blue, but If be wears chevrons on It they are yellow, like a cavalryman's. As an example of cos mopolitanism his cap device bears a relief map of half the globe. An eagle with outspread wings surmounts the globe, and a fouled anchor shows la the background. To "tell" a marine at a glance (whatever his uniform or his rank) look on the front of tlio hut or the cap for thut globe. It Is the distin guishing emblem of a murine the world over. Great Britain Is the only other pow er that has. In our ;s of the word, a real marine corps, und the cap de vice of the British ninrine nlso has a globe In the center of the design. Charles Phelps dishing lu New York Independent. A FAITHFUL HORSE. Paul Revere's Sturdy Steed Fairly En titled to Fame. Paul Revere's name was made im mortal when he rode from Boston to Lexington and Concord warning the patriots along the way of the British approach, and his fame has been se curely enshrined in tho hearts of all Americans. Historians have honored themselves In honoring him. Toets have found in. spiration In praising him. He is an Idol of childhood, an example In the prime of manhood and a solacing mem ory of old age. How few characters loom up like great peaks above the mountain ranges of time! And Paul Revere was one of these. He was one of the precious few great euough to grasp an opportunity to do an incalculable good to mankind. But while we give deserved glory to Paul Revere let us no longer forget that there was another- hero in that wild midnight ride. There was the horse. "Any other horse might have done as well," you think? Well, so might any other man have done as well perhaps. So might we flippantly disparage any hero. But the fact remains that It was Paul Revere and Taul Revere's horse that did It. And the harder work fell on the horse. But for the true horse's faithfulness Paul Revere would have been a failure. Christian Herald. Learn History by Novele. In the Woman's Home Companion Anne Bryan McCall says: "One of the pleasantest ways I know of making varied travels into history Is by rending historical novels. I re member thnt when I was twelve years old I read Harrison Alnsworth's 'Wind sor Castle,' and when I wus fifteen I read Scott's 'Keullworth.' When I was sixteen I rend Hawthorne's 'Scarlet Letter.' I was not thinking of history at all when I read them. I read them solely for the story. Yet from those three books I learned more of the times of Henry VIII. and Queen Eliz abeth and of early American days, I do believe, than lu the many historical chapters covering those times that I have read since. Those books made these times live for me, and It was as though I myself were living lu them." Van and Semiramia. Van is a .city of Immemorial an tiquity, which gave the name to the 'Tannic empire" of Assyria, aud was supposed to have been founded by the seml-mythlcal Queen Semlramls. TJn- less cruelly libeled by the legend she was no better than she ought to have been, which is not surprising if she real ly was a daughter of the mermaid who ruled tho neighboring lake. Van Is to day famous for the cuneiform inscrip tions, Indelibly printed on rocks, by which forgotten Van dwellers at once preserved their historical records and provided against future "paper fam ine." London Chronicle. Too Much For Tommie. "Mother wants you to come right over aud see Tommie," said the little girl. What seems to be the matter with him?" asked the doctor. "He can't swallow, nis teacher gave him some big words to spell today, and we think some of 'em got stuck In bis throat." Youkers Statesman. SHAPE OF THE HAND. The Reason Our Fingers Are Not All of the Sam Length. There Is no known reason why our fingers should be of different lengths today. In fact it is thought by some people that the haud would be stronger If the fingers were all of the same length, says the Book of Wonders. Certainly, however, the hands would not then be so beautiful and might not be so useful. The human hand today is perhaps the most versatile thing in the world. You can do more things with the baud than with any other thing in the world. The probability is that the shape of the hand today and the length of the lingers are the result of the different things the human being has called upon the hand to do during man's develop ment up to the present time. We must go back to the time, how ever, when man wnlked on fours, for that is probably the real explanation. Originally man's fingers were of dif ferent lengths because all four footed animals had the snme peculiarities. The shape and length of the toes and their arrangement were the ideal arrange ment for giving the proper balance nud support to the body and In moving about and in climbing produced the best toe hold. WHERE THE MULE FAILS. Ha Doesn't Relish a Battle When the Artillery Gets Active. More nearly impervious to heat than any of the other domestic animals, in cluding his own ancestry, the mule has played a prominent part In the de velopment, of our southern states. On the sugur plantations and in the cot ton fields he is without a peer. His traditional endurance readers him almost invaluable to the quarter master's department of armies In the field, but the experienced artillery olD cer uses horses Instead for handling artillery In action. A mule doesn't enjoy a battle. He doesn't relish Its excitement and its terror, that metamorphosis that changes men alternately into poltroons and demigods. Under a sustained artillery fire a horse becomes unusually docile. He turns Instinctively to bis master as to a creature of higher power, and his very terror renders him gentle. . But the mule displays no such faith In humankind. In the turmoil of but tle he suddenly becomes arbiter of his own acts, and he either bolts or balks. A mule disapproves all that he does not understand, and it is traditional that he Is not amenable to reason. Los An geles Times. Gold Hill Notes i sotmaammumtiminnmtmn (By A. E. Kellogg.) Joseph B. Pankey of Company P, 15th U. S. Infantry, a Gold Hill Boy, in writing to his father, H, T. Pan key, of this city, said: "Our regi ment seems to be permanently located here In China. Company F and four other companies are garrisoned here at Telnsen and the balance of the regiment are garrisoned at Llo chimog. I ara just out of the hospital from a severe attack of dysentery, j which Is the principal thing we have : to guard against in this climate." j Joe sent his photograph, taken since he recovered at the hospital, and he i looks quite thin. The photograph) was taken by a Chinese artist and compares quite favorably with the American production. Among other things Joe wrote was: "Tell all the; boys In Gold Hill who contemplate! going Into the service to join the reg- j ulars. They are the only thing." Joe joined the army early when the first ' call was made, and doesn't seem to know that there are not enough of the Gold Hill boys left to form a cor poral's guard. Thirty-two of them have joined the colors since Joe's de part iye, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bulck of Myrtle Creek stopped over here Tues day evening to visit with his old-time friend, Nort Eddings, the veteran stage driver of the early '80s over the Slsklyous. .They were accompanied by their daughter, Miss Jennie Bulck, B Don't ask for Cracto sag wcTOXJ I' Children know that Snow Flakes are good to eat and good for them, too! Made of the purest and best materi als in our big daylight factory. Sold in 3 sixes of Packages, and in bulk Pacific Coast Biscuit Co. Portland. Oregon WE SELL 'EM Plaza Grocery W. M. Flackus Ashland Trading Co. Loomis & Nelson Nims & Saunders H. G. Enders & Sons White House Grocery H. P. Holmes j Ashland 41 Years Ago mmatiwititttttt:an:n;::::wi:a The following interesting story of the Fourth of July celebration ap peared in the issue of July 8, 1876: "The pioneers of our cherished val- ttttt He was born in Kentucky in 1798 and is now 78 years of ago, and we are sure that no boy of 16 enjoyed the day any hotter than he." No Wonder He Wouldn't Sell. Captain Amundsen told an amusing story of one of his arctic expeditions. Several of his dogs having died, Cap tain Amundsen asked one of the na tives in his best Eskimo If he would sell him a few dogs. Tp his surprise the request was promptly refused. The explorer and the Eskimo had a long argument, the explorer pointing out that be must get iogs somehow and the Eskimo replying that they never sold them. "Nonsense!" Captain Amundsen ex claimed. "I have often bought dogs." The Eskimos seemed immensely as tonished, and at the eud of another ar gument Captain Amundsen discovered that instead of using the Eskimo word for "dogs" he had been asking the man to sell him some "children." and are traveling by auto. The Bulcks ley can scarcely realize that any con have a large stock ranch near Silver siderable part of their lives has lake In Klamath county, where they are en route from. Among the Gold Hill population employed with the Southern Pacific tie gang on the Slsklyous are John R. McReynolds, Frank Carter, Paul Thompson, Louis McReynolds, Lyle Olsen, Steve McReynolds, Antone 01 flert, Jess M. Blacklngton, Tom West, Thomas Cook and John Long. The company, Is putting in 50,000 new ties on their Siskiyou mountain divisions, Mr. and Mrs. William Wybark and Mrs. John H. McClendon arrived the first of the week by auto from Love lock, Nev.k for an extended visit with relatives In this city. Mrs. Wybark is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mc Clendon and was born on the old home place in Sams valley. Mrs. J. H. McClendon, nee Jessie Betts, is a rormer resident of this city and a A MfnAA 11. A U laOB?U BLUUD WllllO IU IIIO VUUU" try; yet, more than two-thirds of an average lifetime has, flown by since 'the early settlers first broke the soil of Rogue River valley. "In looking over the large gather ing of people who attended the cele bration at this place, we were forcibly reminded of the flight of time. A careful estimate brought us to the conclusion that at least two-thirds of all present wore born In Jackson county. Miss Kate Thompson, the young lady who read the Declaration of Independence, in a style never ex celled in this country, giving it a pathos and lustre of patriotism that enabled us to realize the earnest de termination of our fathers In 'the days that tried men's souls,' was born on Wagner creek a few miles from this place. Most of the busy throng Ashland Boy Prominent Educator daughter of Mrs. Ogden Snyder of )that en,0yed tbe OCCaslon' as we" a" the controlling spirits who aided In nrenartner fnr If huA tint poon fhn Samuel H. Duffleld, the old-time ;ght ,n 185a twentv.four years ag0. "But the representatives of other this city. miner and farm operator of this dls-1 trlct, left Wednesday evening for an ldayg were not want,ng WUn gteady ueu mp norm, ne recently soio. and dlgnlfled otep Mr, Jamea Laugh. his interest In the Duffleld & Burns ... throil(?h thfl , on1nv. placer mines on Galls creek, and he.ng hIs g7tQ Independence Day wlth said: "I am now foot loose the first .,, ,u .,.. , v 4U ait tuu aiuui ui iuu juum auu ucuulj Not True to Life. "Hov? very few statues there are of real women." "Yes; it's hard to get them to look right." "now so?" "A woman remaining still and say ing nothing doesn't seem true to life." Russia's Parquetry Floora. Most flooring put down in Russia Is parquetry, and It is generally oak, Even in the unpretentious houses and flat buildings this parquetry is to be found. In some cases, of course, the finish is not so fine as in others, and in . ordinary buildings the designs are not so elaborate. One of the most noticeable features of a Russian house Is that rugs and carpets are used for wall decorations instead of floor cover ings. Floor polishing by professionals, who come regularly once every week or ten days, is considered a part of tbe regular routine of running a house. Detroit Free Press. Churchyard Yaw Treei. One reason given why very old yew trees are so often found in country churchyards is that originally these trees were planted to Bupply the peas ants with wood for their bows, for In lawless times it was soon discovered that the only 'place where trees would be safe from nightly marauders was the churchyurd, where the most hard ened thief dared not venture between darkness and dawn. London Mail. Cure For Winking. Pa At last I've found a way to make that young scamp of ours stop winking his eyes. Ma Really? Pa Yes; I'll show him the articles in this science magazine where it says that every time we wink we give the eye a bath. Buffalo Express. So He Dees, "Old man Soggs says his boy Bill stojis at the best hotels In New York." "He does. They're on the route of the laundry he drives a wagon for." Browning's Magaine. When you lose your temper you lose your judgn. -nt. There's no precision In an angry decision. Out of Hla Claee. "I hear your new son-in-law bas brain fever," said the curious man. "Brain fever, did you say?" chuckled the father-in-law. "The poor booby couldn't have any such sickness. Imagine a jellyfish having a backache." Puck. long Hla Deelelon. "i nave oeen in your- tram a time now." "I can't marry you," said the girL "All right. Here's where I change cars then." Kansas City Journal. What Started the Jar. Wife I wonder how you can look me In the face. Husband Oh, a man can get used to anything. Exchange. time in four decades and I am going on a protracted bum no, Just any old place, anywhere the notion strikes me. I am going to get off at Salem first and visit the hop yards In that district, I always had a hankering to knew Just how the principal Indus tries up north were managed, and I am going to take them all in the next Mrs. Ann H. Russell, one of tbe first settlers in Ashland and vicinity, is greatly Interested In the oldest one of her twenty grandchildren, Dr. Claud Russell Fountain; ton of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fountain, former resi dents of Ashland. Dr. Fountain grad uated with the highest honors from the University of Oregon and then Columbia College and Is now connect ed with the department of phyBlcs In the University of Georgia. He Is at Nashville, Tenn., this summer in charge of the physics department of the George Peabody College for Teachers summer school. A recent Issue of an educational publication gives an extended account of several of Dr. Fountain's recent Inventions. r RECORD OP THE PAST. that surrounded him was born in Pennsylvania In March, 1787. He Is a veteran of the war of 1812, and was wounded In the battle of Chippewa; and has been a resident of this valley for twenty-four years. "Grandma Myer, mother of Cortes and Frank Myer, was also on the ground, tripping through the crowd two months, when I will return herejand enjoying the day with as much ana nnisn up an my ousiness ana fem)r ag ho d,d e,ghty yeftr8 agQ spend the winter In southern Califor nia. Yes, I am going to see Charley and his boy while north. They are up in Idaho. The boy has grown to be as tall as his father since he left here several years 'ago." Mr. Duf fleld lost his wife last year after a long, lingering illness. He Is past 70 years of age and a very active man of that age. He Is the father of Les lie L. Duffleld, formerly of Gold Hill, and Charles Duffleld, formerly of this city and Medford. The Duffields were formerly engaged in the shoe business at Medford. J. T. Haganl, the welli-known mine operator, formerly of Tolo and the Blackwell district, was in Gold Hill Wednesday, taking the train for the north in the evening. He has been here the past few days in this district looking after his mining interests. He has large Interests here, among which are the Tolo quartz and placer mines and the Yellow Jacket group of qnartz mines on the south slope of the Blackwell hills. Hei has been making his headquarters at Tacoma since he left this district ten years ago. He has been connected with Yakima, Wash., interests since quit ting here. Ike Coy, the well-known miner of this district and who has recently re covered from his late Illness, left for Portersville, In Maderla county, Cali fornia. Wednesday morning. He has a position In a mine near that place, where Foreman Simmons, formerly of the cement plant at Gold Hill, has charge. when she was but four years old.Mrs. Myer was born In Pennsylvania in 1792, and is surrounded by three grown-up generations of her family. "Mr. Giles Wells was also present. No Stronger Evidence Can Be Had In Ashland. Look well to their record. What they have done many times in years gone by is the best guarantee of fu ture results., Anyone with a bad back, any reader suffering from urin ary troubles, from kidney Ills, should find comforting words In the follow ing statement: S. F. Long, S64 Helman street. Mr LanehHn' Ashland, says "I have used In all tnu uuacb ui lyuau a fliuuey rills alia can say they gave me good relief from backache and other kidney and blad der trouble. I recommend them with pleasure." The above statement was given on March 11, 1918, and on March 15, 1916, Mr. Long said: "My former recommendation for Doan's Kidney Pills still holds good. I know they can't be equaled. When I have occa sion to take a kidney remedy, Doan'i never fail to give satisfaction." Price 60d, at all dealers. Dont simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Long has twice publicly recom mended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props Buffalo, N. Y. Some men want to make hay February and cut ice in August. in A tourist without money is Jtramp with money is a tourist. I East Through California Is a favorite route for those seeking diversity of scen ery, opportunity to visit many attractive cities en route and enjoy the best in travel. One Way Fares First and second class to the East and South apply via California. The trip can be made very economically. Summer Excursion Fares Round Trip to principal cities in the East will be on sale certain days in Aug ' ust and September. These tickets apply over practically all routes. Ask your local agent for particulars or write i John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent Portland Southern Pacific Lines