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IK SOLDER’S SLANG Army Vernacular as Odd as That of the Navy. «ANY QUEER A EXPRESSIONS. Man Just Enlisted Is Called “a Rocky,” and Mon Who Enliet at the Beginning of Winter and Desert In the Spring Are Called “Snowbirds." The army has just as odd a vernac ular as the navy. To the uninitiated aome army expressions would convey little or no sense, as, for example, if a soldier were heard to say, "The top told me to report for kitchen police and help skin the spuds for slum for ■upper.” the hearer would have sev eral guesses trefore he would come anywhere near what this meant in the patter of the barracks. In plain language. It means that the first sergeant (the ranking or orderly sergeant) had told him to report to the cook to assist him In peeling the pota toes to make the hash or stew for sup per. Hash or stew is always "slum,” and the first sergeant is “the top;” “kitchen police,” a man who assists the cook Lu tile preparation of meals and the washing of dishes, pans, etc. A man who has just enlisted or has not yet been In the ranks long enough to be considered a 1 full fledged soldier, duties, Is called having learned all his I ”a rooky,” and ' woe be unto the “rooky” who gets “fresh” before an old sergeant wbo has been in the ranks since before the fresh “rooky” was born! He will I be told In any but gentle terms by the old timer: “Shut up and go about your work. Your name Is not yet dry on your enlistment paper!” meaning that when be was ■worn in and promised to serve for three years and obey the “orders of the president and the officers appolnt<*d over him” he had signed Ills name to this paper and the signature had not had time to get dry. When a man says he Is going to “take on” or “take to another blan ket,” he means that he is going to re- enlist. The government, in the cloth ing allowance for each man. provides a blanket; hence the term to "take au other blanket.” The guariftiouse is called “the mill.” Some ill behaved soldier away back tn the past (the term is a very old one) no doubt thought his term in the guardhouse ground out toward its end very slowly, ao he applied this now much used name to the prison of the garrison. Wheu “the top” says, "«let your blanket and go to the mill,” the sol dier knows he is In for a tour of duty in the guardhouse, and his blanket means one or more nigtita, for In that much to be avoided place nothing is supplied In the way of comforts, and each occupant carries with him bis blanket, or more if he has them, to make his rest more comfortable. All meals are called “chuck,” and along toward mealtime the expression, “Is It not time for chuck call to blow?” Is heard very frequently. “Snowbirds” are men who enlist in the winter aliout the time snow begins to fall and the real snowbird puts in its appearance aud desert in the spring when the robin appears. They “take on” only to tide over the winter with its discomforts. The oldest man tn the company Is “dad” and the youngest “the kid. Any deserter is called a “skipper.” Two men who share the same small tent or whose bunks are side by side tn the barrack room are called “bunk- h*s.” This ancient term originated in the days of the very old army, when the bunks were “built for two” and two men slept side by side on a mat tress tilled with straw and one blan ket apiece, much different from today, when each man has his hair mattress, pillow, sheets and blankets. A “bunky” always has a chew or filling for a pipe for his mate, when he might tell an other man that he has not enough weed to “put under your nail.” Al) fines received from a court are called “blind,” so that a man who re ceived ten days In the guardhouse and a fine of $5 would tell his comrades that he “got ten days In the mill and flve blind.” The commanding officer of a com pany or the post Is always the "old man.” If he Is not liked other terms, not parlor tnlk, are used. All field musicians are called “wind Jammers” ou account of their Jamming of wind Into the trumpet that calls the men to labor or rest. Every man on the completion of bis I term of enlistment Is given n dis charge. At the bottom of bls paper In olden times was a space In which the character borne by the man during his term of enlistment was written. If his aervlce had been bad this part of the discharge was cut off, and It was called “a bobtail.” In speaking of the length of time a man has to serve tie- fore he has completed his term of en listment the term “butt” means less than a year. Ro to say he has a yenr ■nd a little less than two years he would say "a year and a butt.” There are a number of men In the tanks who save their money and lend it to others. The rate Is very high. If a man borrows $2 he must pay $4 at pay day. This Is called “cent per cent ” The term “one more shingle on the White House” means that the man has completed one more tour of guard duty consisting of twenty-four hours. Many of these terms quoted are of ▼ery old origin so old that if you ask the oldest man In an organization when he beard It first he will proba bly tell you. “Oh. It was used when I took my first blanket.”—Major R AV Atkinson in New York Tribune. TO ABOLISH BILLBOAROS. SUMMONS THE AMPHIB'CYGLt. 3et*il of Practical Method Adopted by Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., chiims to be the first city I d the Ctilted States to pro vide a practical method of abolishing billboards. By the new city charter the council is given authority to pro hibit by ordinance the construction or maintenance of billboards within any district of the city which it may pre scribe. but must remunerate property owners for damages thereby caused them, unless their consent tie first ob tained. The damages paid and other costs are to tie treated as a public Im provement and assessed us such against the property In the prescribed district. The amount of damages is to be determined by a jury. Advan tage of the above provision has already been taken by the owners of one of the largest residence additions to the city, who have filed their written con sent to the passage of an ordinance prohibiting billboards In that district. The charter provides for regulation also, and an ordinance, which has been upheld by the circuit court, provides that the height of billboards must not exceed ten feet, that there shall be a dear space underneath of at least eighteen inches, that the ends must be at least three feet distant from any wall or fence or other obstruction which will prevent a clear passage from the street to the ground Itehind and that no billboard shall be con- st rue ted within twelve feet of the property line. It was held that this could not be applied to billboards al ready erected, but on Jan. 28 a storm blew down 110 billboards, which great ly assisted the reform. Generally speaking, billboards can be taxed in the same way as other property, but it has been held uncon stitutional to “tax them out of ex istence.” Machin* That Rins With Facility on Land and Water. ’ A young inventor of Lyons, Frdnce. i has adapted a bicycle for use us a boat aud as a roud machine To en able the bicycle to run on water tie attached to it a pair of cylindrical flouts, a propeller and a rudder. On leaving the water the cylinders and nautical gear are lifted so as to allow the wheels to run on the ground. The inventor was able to run bis ma chine ou the Suome. In the neighbor hood of Lyons, and also on roads ap parently with no ditfifulty. When iD the water the machine is able to make flve or six miles an hour quite easily. The two cylindrical floats, which end in a conical jiolnt. are attached to the bicycle frame by Jointed supports so that they can be raised and lowered as desired and can lie fastened in A Great Combination Offer The Bank * ol Bandon, a coq . ration duly ’ or- gamzed and doing bu-.i.. . ondea the lax* oi Oregon. Plaintiff J II. Price, Sara E Price, his wife, Carl J. I oard, Christopher Nottley, Haviside, Withers & Davis, a corporation or^an : z e d under the laws ot Cali fornia doing business m San I ran< isco, William McKay, Mary T. Car penter and Cody Lum ber Co., a corporation duly organized under the laws of Oregon, Defendants. hr HE RECORDER management has made arrangements with the San Francisco Bulletin whereby we can give subscribers the advantage of a g nantie combination offer that will furnish them all the news of the country in a metropolitan daily and all the news of Bandon and vicinity in the Recorder at a marvelous low price T To J. 11. Price, Sara E J. board, Christopher Nottley, Haviside. W itbei- N Davis, a coipoiation organized under the laws ot California doing business in San Francisco, illiam M. Kay. Mary I. Carpenter and Cody Lumber Co., a corporation duly organized under the law s of Oregon. defendants. IN THE NAME 01 THE STATE OF OREGON VALUE OF A LITTLE ENERGY Dumping Ground That Has Been Transformed Into a Sunken Garden. Some folk don't need orders for the spring cleaning that is going to make Kansas City's vacarft lots look a little less like «lumping grounds. What a little individual enterprise will do can be seen on an empty space at the cor ner of Lexington and Wabasb avenues. Neat little beds where vegetables will presently flourish have taken the place of an unsightly graveyard for cats, tin cans and other refuse. The work began one morning last year when Mrs. T. II. McDearmon, who lives on the next lot, at 220 Wa- bash avenue, looked out of her win dow and determined to have a better view. A tramp came in opportunely, and the first fruit of the idle land was a meal for the idle man. In the win ter several unemployed earned occa sional food by clearing the rough de bris from the place. Beans, peas, to matoes. lettuce, rhubarb, onions and radishes will be cultivated there. A few old fashioned flowers will be used to brighten it up. Mrs. McDearmon did not work long alone. W. M. Fenton and E. II. Page, both living near the same corner, soon saw the advantages bf the scheme to the neighborhood and to themselves. They are not rough workers, these amateur gardeners. The soil looks ns if it had been dug deep and lies as smooth as a fine sifter could make it. Neat little pegs indicate where each kind of vegetable aud flower has been planted. CirClrit Court oi tiic Mate of Orc t mi tn afld *’r i Lou • » i- s,'»* > AMPHIBICYCLE ON LAND AM) WATER, place when the cycle is on the road. For operating the propeller a rubber covered friction wheel is employer!, which is mounted behind the tire of the rear cycle wheel, the small wheel’s motion being transmitted by a bevel gearing to the propeller shaft. A small rudder is mounted at the front and is controlled by a rod passing from the front cycle fork into the water. The two cylinders are braced across by a rod which passes between the wheels and also by another like rod In the rear of the machine, Th* whole machine weighs about 270 pounds, As built at present it is about eight feet long and three feet six inches in outside width. The cyl inders are about one foot In diameter. STREET TREES AN ASSET. Next In Aesthetic Importance to High Class Architecture. Next to high class architecture a town or city’s chief asset should lie in its street trees. While architecture may claim first rank, that city is most beautiful which is possessed of the greatest number of suitable street trees. But a few days ago an eastern woman visiting in Los Angeles was heard to say, "I think Salt Lake City Is the most beautiful place west of the Mississippi, it has so many finely planted trees.” Viewed from the heights on any side, where detail Is lost and the composite whole is considered, no plnce of like size In California Is more lienutlful than Riverside, the Forest City, and street trees are its chief asset. Wher ever wo hear an opinion expressed re garding a beautiful city we may note, if we but listen, that some remark is made about street trees. Every vis itor to Europe, commenting on the fine cities, does not leave off enumerating the chief charms until he has spoken of magnificent avenues and boulevards lined with trees. None Is mentioned that is not tree lim'd Wheu one con siders txith the aesthetic and economic value of trees it is hard to realise that we have people who do not like thorn There are those who really would rather see bare streets than well plant ed ones To some these persons are objects of pity, but to a majority they but invoke disgust by a presentation of their views Los Angeles Times Latest Theory About Cancer. A French surgeon named Borrel has recently delivered a lecture at the Ecole de Medeciu, in Paris, in course of which he advances a novel theory concerning cancer and leprosy. He declares it to be his belief that the bacillus of either malady is concealed in the black pinheads or blackbeaiLs which often disfigure our faces and from which, particularly in the nose and chin, scarcely any one is entirely free. When extracted these pinheads or blackheads have the appearance of little worms. They consist of what Is known as sebaceous matter, this being matter produced from certain glands with the object of supplying the skin with its due quantity of oil. Dr. Borrel has been experiment lug and has found, with the aid of a very powerful microscope, that this seba ceous matter nearly always contains a bacillus which is cancerous or crab like in form. After the age of fifty most persons, male as well as female, throw off much of this sebaceous matter in the ordinary process of aging. The face and chest in particular exude most se baceous matter. It is about this age, declares Borrel, that cancerous devel opments begin to make their appear ance. and the coincidence is worth re marking. Dr. Borrel advises those whose face and body are disfigured by blackheads to beware. A solution of alcohol with from 2 to 3 per cent of salicylic m id is, he says, an excellent preventive. Lemon juice is also good. The Andean Railway. An event of transcendent importance tn the Industrial and economical evolu tlon of the world Is the description ac corded the railway through the Andes, which is expected to be ready for oper ation March 1911. The railway Jour ney will accomplish in thirty-eight hours what the present boat passage vta Cape Horn or the strait of Magel lan does In ten days During the open season from November to April, the spring and summer of the region, the land journey over the hundred miles of the Cordilleras has had to be taken afoot or on male back, while tn mid winter. August and September. It Is almost lmpc’ -|ble because of the ter rific storms and the blocking of passes Trees as Sanitary Agents. When City Forester Prost of Chlcairo by snowdrifts and avalanches. The delivered his maiden speech the other railway will connect Valparaiso and day as the city’s spokesman on tree Buenos Aires, the two great South and shrubbery planting tiefore the American seaports. Woman’s club of Esther FalkcnstMn Food Value of Cheese settlement, be said: A.s to the value of cheese as food ’’More can be urged for n tree than that it improves the beauty of a thor bases to build the body Instead of oughfare. It Is a distinct sanitary meat, the following figures give the agent W. A. Murrell in one of the Cor perccnffiges of proteid or albumen, ac nell bulletins contends that the trees cording to a leading authority, raw add to the healthfulness of a city or beef having about 20 per cent; Cream cheese. 8.fl; Camemliert. 21: town by cooling and purifying the air. It also cuts off direct and reflected Stilton, nearly 24; Gorgonzola. nearly raya of the atm The tree absorbs tp- 2R; Cheshire. 29 4: Dutch. 80JJ; Gru- Jarían» gnæa and gives off oxyfM yere . or Swiss, 81.5; Cheddar, 334; which humana must hare." I Gloucester, 80.7; I’armeeau. 4* 8, You are hereby required to appear anil answer the complaint hied against vou in the above en titled suit on or before the Iasi day of the time prescribed in the order for public«I.on of this -uinmons which prescribed time is six (6) wef* , the last day of which time will be I hursday, ihe 9th day oi September, PK)1), and if you fail h to so apfx'ar and answer said complaint for w mt thereof, the plaintiff will applv to the court for the relief demanded in plaintiff s complaint on hi. herein a succinct statement of the relief de ni nded in said complaint being as follows, to wit: Judgment a.ainst the said defendant, J. II. Price, in th^hrst cause of suit * for the sum of on« thousand five hundred ($1,500.00) dollars and interest thereon at the rale of 10 per cent per annum from the 27th day of July, I^IS, for an attorney’s fee of one hundred and fifty ($I5O.(X)) dollars, for the sum of eighty and 92-1(X) ($80.92) dollars taxes paid for th«' year 1908, on the premises mentioned in said first cause of suit and interest thereon from the 19th day of July. 1909, at the rale of 10 per cent per annum, for the sum of one hunrded and forty sev n ($147.00) dollars insuram c premium paid I- ; m surance on the building? on .aid pre HL • by plaintiff for said defendant J. I I. Pric« ar I inter est thereon al the rat«' of 10 jxh cent per annv. n from the 24th day of April, 1909. Against the said defendant J. H. Price in lh< second cause pf suit herein set up for the sum of $1 101.92 and interest thereon al the rate of ( j>c‘r cent per annum from the 23d day of Dec?m ber, 1908, for an attorney’s fee in said cause or suit of one hundred ($100.00) dollars. Against the said defendant J. II Price in th< third cause of »uit for the sum of one thousand five hundred ($1,500.00) dollars and interest (hereon at the rale of 10 per cent per annum from the 28th day of July, 1908, and for an attorney fee of one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars in said cause of suit; and against said defendant J. M. Price for plaintiff’s costs and disbursements n this entire suit. That the usual decree may be made for th< sale of said mortgaged property described in said three causes of suit or either of them by th' sheriff of Coos county---according to law and of this court, and that I hr the practice said sale be applied to the proceeds of and expenses of payment of the costs tins suit and the said sale and attorney’s fee?: «and secondly to the payment to plaintiff of any sum that may be found due it under those p. >- ceedings or that th«' proceeds of the sale ol th property mentioned in each separate can e ot suit be applied severally to the payment of any sum which may bo i und du*- the plaintiff under each of said causes of suit severally, Said mortgaged premises being described as follows to-wit: Beginning al a point on low water lino of th, Coquille river I 134.7 feet north and 205.4 loot east of the southwest corner of block number . in Woolen Mill Addition to the town of Bandon county of Coos and stale of Oregon; running thence n 35 °e 200 feet along low water line of Coquille river; thence s 35 ® 45’ e 520 hct t< the western boundary of the county road; thmc« s 35 ° w 20 feel along the w« stcrn boundary e; the county road: thence n 5> c 45’ w I 70 thence s 35 0 w 180 feet; thence n 35 c 45’ v. 350 feet to the place of beginn ng, including th« tide land «and water frontage abutting and front ing said land to ship channel of Coquille river. Also beginning at a point on low water line c. the Coquille river 1298.5 feet north and 320.1 feet east of the southwest corner of block No. :n the Woolen Mill /Addition to the town « : Bandon, county of Coos and state of Oregon and running thence n 35 ° c 46.5 feet along the low water line of the Coquille river; thence 35 c 45’ e 520 feet to the western boundary of the county road; thence s 35 c w 46.5 feet alonr* the we t» rn boundary of the county road; thenc n 35 ° 45’ w 520 feet to th»' place of beginning including the tide land and right to the use of the water frontage fronting and abutting to sh'p channel of Coquille river. Also beginning at a point on the western boundary of the county road leading from Bandon to Bullards’ Eerry and 733.7 Ice; nortti and 493.7 feet east of the southwest comer of block No. 2 in the Woolen Mill Addition to the town of Bandon in the county of Coos and State of Oregon; running then e n 35 0 45’ w 143.5 feet; thence n 35 c e 180 feet; themes 35 0 45’ e 208 feet to the western boundary of the aforesaid county road; thence southwesterly along the said western boundary of the said county road to the place < f beginning. 1 weivr ceiling jack screws, more or les four house moving screws, more or less; twenty ship clamp screws, more or less; two lumber t n« ' three little Giant compressed air machines; thirty ship augurs (all sizes) seven tons iron (all m stock, including bands, strap’, etc.); twenty ring bolts key; twenty nny lvc.lt-) rifW. all line, .vvd block... twelve box roller«: one ton xptltex. all plug«, tree nail.. wedges, etc.; thirty top maul and «ledge«; one forge and bellow.« and ill black «noth took; two hundred dog« of all de « options: all chain, including slings, etc .: thr - derricks, complete, fift-en pease ; hftce» croc cut saws; one twenty-four inch knile buzz planer; one Fay A Egan band saw; one cut-off saw; one Gardiner air compre «or; one l>olt cut ter and punch; one cylinder an lank: one I2xlo FrO«l engine; one locomotive type boiler, al! nil including engine and paint oil: all shaflm., pulley« and l>elting. anil all other fixture.«, together with a friction hoist, belonging Io the shipyard ot J.H. Price, Bandon. Oregon Al«v olla <• bo ld ing and fixture«, inc luding chairs, tables, desks, typewriter, 'ale, ate, cheek nrot*x prole, t tor, et,. Also ali staqr plank horses and alt linn! c-r tn yard felony- ing to J. H. Price, in his shipyard. in Bandon. Oregon. That all oi ’«id defendants ar d all perrons claiming under them rub<rqu* nt and vond to the execution of this mortgage, either I»u.- cha.<er«. incumbrancers or otherwise, I>e l>e bar bair«J and forecloj»ed nf all right, claim and equity »( redemption in and to the aid mortgaged proj-tty and every part and parcel thereof, and that the mortgage liens of plaintiff adjudged to l«e the hr >t an I only U » ogaa i ai I nin I ha< plainuff uave judgment against the detln- • • o • • • * The Daily San Francisco Bulletin, Q .• * *8 O C» 1 $4.50 ! I Both papers through danti J. H. Price and Sara E Price lor anv deficiency that may remain after applying all the p oceeds ol the sale ol >aid property as herein demanded, ami as in aid note- anil mortgages covenanted and provided. .And the over, lus if any theie be after satisfy ing the demand« of ai«l judi-ment, be paid over to the defendants J. Fl. ¡'rice and Sara .E. Prs'e or their h-gal repre scntalivcs; that the plaintiff or any other party to this suit may become a pur- ca.-her at «aid sale ol ill or each parcel of said pro;ierty d< riiied in each cr.u ' ol <uit; that the herirf main: ,: the lame cxecun a i bill of sale to the purchaser within the time, manner and pro- visions of la I./, for th' personal property men- Honed herein and that the sai< s. 1 sheriff < xecute a deed to the purchaser r or purchasers of said premises in the time and manner and according That the purchaser or to the provisions of law of said prop- purchaser.« be put into possession ] erty or po-s'is: s by th*- s kheriff, making the sale upon the product!« an of the sheriff’•< bill of ^ale or or certificate ol .«al< <*. and that the plaintiff may have such other and lurt! :her relief in the premises as the court may hnj to be I meet and equitable. This summons is pubhJied published in the Bandon A : < klv newspaper nrv,<paj> • publBtieif in Coos Recorder, a weekly ’1?a. if • ■ -n ecutiw wet k<, f>e- I county. Oregon, Io- HX -ix cons, September gtnning July J9th, 29th, 1909, and an<! endmi! e •>h, 1909, by , <•':<< I of the 1 loti. Jonn r • f i«ll» county judge of o Coos county, made th*’ 2fith day t e MlIS SARAH (’OSTELLO \ ice elemi rooms 2f> mill 50c h night ; $1.25 a week; $5 aniontb BANDON OREGON Boyles’Jewelry Store Carries a fine line of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry AiiATES CUT AMI POLISHED Agate Jewelry Made to Order FINE ENGRAVING if you wish a bottle cold— Call at the Eagle, If you love the good* that'* old-- Call at the Eagle. 1 aint no use to sit and blink If you really need a drink, Just make a sign or ring a bell. And you bet they'll tteat you right Wires. Liquors & Cigars Steam licei- on iliaii!*lit Down at the F.agle Alvin Munck, Prop BANDON, OREGON COI «!!:.)! S Irflil MIAT GROSS BROS. 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