Eastern Washington Industries Buffer On Account o f Men Being Taken Original slang Is often poetic. I’er- hups the best way to prove thLs to the professors will be to remind them tlint some o f their own worthiest and most classic and r c n e 'la b le words are themselvea, 'f we go back to tbelr ' f l u i U M r f o r A I .A in liin g P l a ç a origin, Juat the same alangy vagabonda ffeMlted VS ill i-uy nil ra*h. W «lit | TflÜÜ.UUU. Ukvv • l«ta titMcriptUiM Mini list as these. Examine, for Instance, the «k. word Inveigh, Max Kastman writes In McKENZIE A COM PANY, the New Republic, There Is a staid ) Uwrllttger Mill*.. Portland, Or#*t>n and dignified term, lit to he Incorporat­ ed In a president's Inaugural: “ I will IÆT US not at this time luvelgh against tha custom prevalent among my contem­ You can Imagine how It M i atoro», Pool Haltii and Candy poraries." would sound. And yet, poetically, what DaaleiM, ask tor Proposition C. i I oi - b that word uiseu? In means ’in to ." S pe c ialty S ales C o ., Vclil means to sail. “ 1 will not at this SOMIION IT . SMTUNS. 0*1 SOM time aull Into my contemporaries I" iHalvrM in H a U hi HLlmulalur«. Here Is another Latin word— Insult. In Its origin It means to jump on— ex­ W e W ant Your actly what la said everywhere by the schoolchildren o f Americu when the appropriate situation arlsea. Diatribe Is a pretentious term. It W o P a y C ash .. N o C o m m is s io n a Implies something more thorough than H E ID E N R E IC H CO., an Insult, a more lasting denunciation. V4 Front st., Portland, Ora You not only "Jump on” somebody, hut you "rub It In." We used to say of a W O ES , P ELT 8 , CASCARA BARK, cruxy person that he was "off hla trol­ ley." And the word delirious meant W OOL ANO M OHAIR. substantially the same thing In an it » im up it i f t** lir a Sfili tac pneu M i earlier stage of rtvlllsutlon. It came I H. P. R om o« Co. Nfiliii. Ori ; lutili. «• from the I,atln worda de and lira, which mean off or out o f your fur­ row. The word precocious means pre­ Vaal, Pork. Baaf. cooked, or, as wo say, half baked, Poultry, Buttar, F.||i ('iiprleliius menu: like a gout, nml the and Farm Produce. slang correlatives here are luuumer- to the OM R*ll*l»l* Kvuiln, houa* with a able. rwort ot 4f> y' of Honor* ItuHnio ud ba wauml of TOP MARKET PRICES. Imuglne some worthy, refined and F. M. CRONKHITE graduated soul being offended by a S i 7 f r o n t S troat Portland. O . . , . ■ young upstart and responding some­ what as fo llo w s: ” !t seems to me you are a trifle capricious. I would hard­ It W on't l>«. ly expect any one to Inveigh agulnst he Great One: I am afraid your me In this delirious manner, deliver­ taation is juot. Many SetOOS ara in- ing such a diatribe. Is It essential to toltn ibly concietod. Indeed, it is your precocity to Insult your elders?" aMti/mg to think h o w many imagine And then suppose we translated this they an play Hamlet as well aa 1 can. somewhat according to tho etymologic­ •—Sketch. al dictionary: "You gout t You must lie off your trolley to suit Into in# like Hint r.nd then rub It In I Just because Unconquerable Trait. "W h a t makes your huaband so inter* you're hulf-tmkcd you needn't think you cuu Jump on your elders I" ted in reincarnation7' ” “ 1 don't know, unless it's his ab- A Guarantee. ntmindedness. He ia sure to want come back after something he for* j “ You say you can offer me a fortune, but is it all clean money?” >t. Exchange. “ It ought to be; I made it in soap.” — Baltimore American. A New Horror. “ Do you know my hairdresser has The Average Consumer. increased her rates for goldren hair?” | " Who’s this man who ia telling me _ "T h e wretch! To the high cost o f jiving she ban now added the high coat to'eat the luxuries o f the table so as to save the staples?” o f dyeing." Exchange. " Why, what'a the matter with you, man?” H e’s either got to give me tha mon­ ey to buy lobsters with or tell me I'm one my self 1” — Exchange. m to BUY SHEEP RANCH C REASE VOUR PROFITS BEANS H IP i B U Y D IR E C T ^ Y o u r O w n P lu m b in g | By bujrln* dlroet from ua at wholmate pricoa am! aava tha plumber'a profit«. Writa ua to­ day your noeda. W* will riva you our rock- bottom "dlrect-to-you” price*, f. o. b. rail or boat. Wa actually aava you from 10 to W p«r «writ. AH rood a ruarmnteod. Northwoat headquarter* fo« flatter Water Ryatema and Kullar A Johnaon Knrinaa. S TAR K -D A VIS CO. 212 THird Stmt. Pori tend. Or* row W ell, Hardly. "Atlas held the world on bis shoul­ ders." “That's the story.” "Still, he probably didn't have his hands as full as the chap who pitches a crucial game In a world series.” Human Nature. That mnu doesn't live who has not at one time thought he had all the ele­ ments o f greatness concealed within him. 9 q 6 ó $6 Werk Many Women in this Condition Re­ gain Health by Taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Convincing Proof o f This Fact. Ridgway, I ’cnn. — “I Buffered from female trouble with backache and pain in my side for over seven months b o I could not do any of my work. I was treated by threo different doctors and was getting discouraged when my sister-in-law told me how Lydia K. I “Ink ham's Vegetable Compound had helped her. I decided to try it, and it restored my health, so I now do all of my housework which is not light as I have a little boy three years old." — Mrs. O, M. H iu n k s , ltidgway, Penn. M r s . L in d s e y N o w K e e p s H o u s e F o r H even . Tennille,Ga.—“I wnnt to tell you how much I have been benefited by T.ydia K. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. About eight years ago I got in such a low state of health I was unable to keep house for throe in the family. I hacl dull, tired,dizzy feclingH, cold feet and hands nearly all tho time and could scarcely sleep at alL The doctor said I hod a severe case of ulceration and without an operation I would always be an invalid, but I told him I wanted to wait awhile. Our druggist advised my husband to get Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and it has entirely cured mo. N ow I keep houso for seven and work in the garden some, too. I am so thankful I got this medicine. I feel as though it saved my life and have recommended it to others and th e y have been benefited”.— Mrs. W . E. L in d s k y , R .R .3 , Tennille, Go. I f y o u w a n t s p e c ia l a d v ic e w r i t e t o L y d i a K . P ln k h a m M e d i­ c in e C o . (c o n fid e n t ia l) L y n n , M a ss. Y o u r l e t t e r w i l t b e o p en ed * r e a d a n d a n s w e r e d b y a w o m a n a n d h e ld tn s t r ic t c o n fid e n c e . for War Union ia Formed. The car shortage on tha Southern Pacific dropped from 1067 to 798 last Spokane- - A labor shortage o f 10,000 Saturday. The big difference is made in the increase in the surplus o f closed woodsmen and mill operatives faces timber operators o f eastern Washing­ cars from two to 280. Plans are being inaugurated already ton and Oregon and northern Idaho, it by McPherson Post, No. 6, G. A. R., was declared here Thursday at a meet­ o f Albany, for the entertainment o f ing o f the IiOggera’ club, com pos«] o f the grand emcampment o f Oregon o f lumbermen of that section and attend­ that organization, which meets in A l­ ed also by several operators from Mon­ tana. bany next June. Of these, 7000 were lost by army A petition numerously signed was enlistment or draft, it was stated, but presented to the Lincoln County court about as many now engaged in har­ Wednesday asking that a special elec­ vesting and firefighting w ill be avail­ tion be held for the purpose o f voting able for woods work later. The oper­ on a proposition to bond the county ators took no action on wages, and no for $200,000 to build roads in the coun­ decision for uniform resumption o f ty- operations was announced. Plans for circulating among lumber The fall Ashing "season opened at noon Tuesday at Astoria with every manufacturesra and their employes pe­ indication that there w ill be a large titions for congress asking for a uni­ catch. An unusually large amount o f versal aigth-hour day in the lumber gear will be in the water and if the industry were formulated and the club weather conditions permit many trai­ realfirm «l its indorsement o f the eight- hour day. lers w ill be operating outside. A resolution indorsing the boycott of The long drouth was broken Friday coast building trades unions against at Heppner by a shower which cleared lumber manufactured in camps and the air o f smoke and dust and stopped mills running 10 hours a day was the forest Ares in the mountains. passed by the local Central Labor Threshing is in full swing, and many council, and referred to the Spokane farmers who counted on 10-buahel-per- Building Trades council. acre crops are now reporting 18 to 20. Application for a charter in the The hop crop in Lane county is far American Federation o f Labor was short o f estimates made when picking made to the Central Labor council by was begun last Monday, according to a newly organized union o f mill work­ a statement made by J. H. Seavey, of ers and timbermen, which it was de­ SpringAetd, who owns a 210-acre yard clared has 400 members. It ia com­ near that place where between 500 mitted to the principle o f the eight- and 600 pickers have completed their hour day, it was announced. work. S. 0 . s. Send Over Some WRIGLEY5 Keep you r soldier o r sailor W ith the crops o f the sales agency’s inspectors in charge, daily lectures, to be given between the hours o f 1:30 and 3 o ’clock, w ill be features o f the annual packing schools to be conducted by the Hood R iver Apple Growers’ as­ sociation for the week o f September 17-22. The sales agency officials are determined to conserve all o f the va l­ le y ’s big apple crop, and growers and their fam ilies are urged to be present at the lectures. The Sherman County court has voted $100 for the Sumpter fire re lie f funds. The blocking o f the Columbia H igh­ way between Cascade Locks and Hood River, as contemplated, w ill not stop tourist traffic nor automobile parties to the Pendleton Round-Up, it is point­ ed ou t It is possible to ferry across the river from the looks and to return to the Oregon side again at Hood River, where the road is open. Oscar Nelson, o f Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, has been named as judge o f the poultry department o f the Oregon state fair, according to an announce­ ment made by Secretary A. H. Lea. Mr. Nelson is a native o f Sweden. He came to this country in 1889 and for 16 years has been breeding pure-bred poultry and fo r eight years has served as judge at various poultry shows. He owns a large poultry ranch near Coeur d’Alene. Discrimination against the lumber industry o f the Northwest states in favor o f California and Southern states is feared by the Oregon Lumber com­ pany o f Portland and other Northwest concerns in changes o f minimum weights on cars o f lumber and lumber products which transcontinental rail­ way lines propose to make effective September 24. Protests have been filed with the Oregon Public Service commission. The safety deposit vaults o f the Bank o f Jacksonville were robbed early Wednesday of $500 in money and $500 in jew elry. The only clew to the robbers is two chisels stamped “ F. E. H .” The recent estimates o f Hood River apple shippers o f 75 per cent o f the 1,- 600,000-box crop o f last year, it is now thought, have been placed far too low. Numerous growers are daily visiting sales agencies and re­ porting an increase o f several thousand boxes In their estimates and ordering an increased supply o f boxes. Portland— Wheat— Bluestem, $2 per bushel; fortyfold, $1.98; club, $1.96; red Russian, $1.93. Flour— Patents, $11.20. M illfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $37 per ton; shorts, $40; middlings, 47; rolled barley, $55 @ 57; rolled oats, $57. Corn— Whole, $82 per ton; cracked, $83. H ay— Buying prices, f. o. b. Port­ land ; Eastern Oregon timothy, $27 per ton; valley timothy, $23(d25; al­ falfa, $22.50 @ 24; valley grain hay, $20; clover, $20; straw, $6.50. B u tte r— Cubes, extras, 45c; prime firsts, 43c. Jobbing prices: Prints, extras, 47c; cartons, lc extra; butter- fat, No 1, 46@48c. Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re­ ceipts, 38c per doxen; Oregon ranch, candled, 39 *) It’ s an outstanding fe a tu re o f th e w a r— “ A ll th e B ritis h A rm y Is chewing i t .“ HUNTERS FIND GAME SCARCE The citizens o f Riddle at a meeting last week, determined to make a pro­ test before a meeting o f the Highway First Venture in Eastern Washington Brings Poor Results. commission and have employed A ttor­ ney Elbert Herman, o f Koseburg, to North Yakim a — Hunters who went go before the commission and offer proof why Riddle should not be elim ­ into the hills Sunday and Monday for grouse did not find the birds plentiful inated from the PaeiAc highway. and few o f them got full bags. Game F. A. Pierce, o f Day’s Creek, near Warden Greenman and a deputy sta­ Riddle, a breeder of mohair goats, has tioned themselves at the forks o f two re p o rt«! for the California State Fair, roads leading into the most popular at Sacramento, with 12 head o f his districts fo r hunters Sunday evening fancy show stock. Mr. Pierce is the and held up and examined from 50 to owner o f Dodo, the world's champion 60 automobile parties returning. In long hair mohair goat, fleece o f which no instance was it found that the bag measured 42 inches when clipped by lim it had been exceeded, and only the judges at the San Francisco Expo­ four were found who could not show their licences, each o f whom claimed sition. they had a license but had come away W. A. Taylor, well-known rancher, without it. living near Marleay, eight miles south­ east o f Salem, has received word from Two More Mills Are Reopened. the State Fish and Game commission Seattle— The big sawmill o f the Pu­ that it intends to place a herd o f 30 or 40 elk on the headwaters o f the Abqua get Sound M ill & Tim ber company at river some time in the near future. Port Angeles, and the plant o f the No details were given as to where the Crown Lumber company at Mukilteo, elk w ill be secured, but probably from have reopened each working 10 hour daily at half capacity. Spruce from Wyoming. , the W illapa harbor district is being George H. Himes, of Portland, and shipped in trainload lots to Grays Har­ P. H. D ’ Arcy and George M. Post, of bor, to be cut into airplane stock for Salem, apjieared before the Board of the United States. Twenty-one o f the Control Wednesday and submitted 24 mills on Grays Harbor are running. plans o f the new Pioneer Memorial The I. W. W. who have been on strike building to be erected by the state at for several weeks, are returning to Cham|>oeg, the site o f the formation work in the logging camps. o f the provisional government o f Ore­ gon. The plans, which include a log building and an open-air auditorium, were approved and work w ill go ahead. boy AFTER EVERY MEAL .s ill™ « Flavor Lasts "733 Y tM IG L E Y J U IC Y 2H S S i________ F R U IT ~ ( HEWINGi GUM ANNOUNCEMENT OF ADVANCE IN PRICE VAUGHAN’S PORTABLE DRAG SAW 4 H. P. Now $145; Sept. 15 will be $155 The Lightest and Strongest Drag Saw made—Can be Operated by One Man and Carried by Two Men. Vaughan M o to r W o r k * , main PORTLAND. OREGON. U A 1/ KT v n i l nerve enough to send me 35c l l H V L V U U for sample $1.00 article? L a ­ dies’ or Gent’s. W&gar.LBox 325. St: Louis. Mo. ABSORB IN E m Young men and women with business training find positions everywhere. Go to Northwest’s largest Business College. B E H N K E -W A L K E R . Portland. Ore. 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C k l c a x s t The Irish Method. “ W hat’s become o f the dog you Casey?” “ Oh, he was w ort’ $10 an’ Oi t ’ inkin’ i f some wan should stale Oi could ill afford the loss, so Oi him away, begorra.” — Exchange. had, kept him gave The Old W ay and the New. Old-fashioned people used to spend the long evenings o f fall and winter Change o f Opinion. at home, munching popcorn or apples “ Don’ t you believe in corporal pun­ over the Bible, Shakespeare or Dick­ ens. Moderns go to the movies nnd let ishment?” “ N o ,” replied Farmer Comtaasel. the Charlie Chaplins and Mary Bick­ “ N ot any more. My boy Josh has all fords Improve their minds. the best o f it when it comes to physi­ cal culture.” — Exchange. B iting Reproof. During a dust storm at one o f the army camps, a recruit sought shelter in the cook’s tent. “ I f you put the lid on that camp kettle you would not get so much dust in your soup.” “ See here, my lad, your business is to serve your country.” “ Y e s ,” replied the recruit, “ but not to eat it .” — Chrijtian Reigister. With the Fingers! Says Corns Lift Out Without Any Pain You reckless men and women wno are pestered with corns and who have What They Find. at least once a week Invited an awfnl Those who go hunting for trouble death from lockjaw or blood poison are always finding fault. are now told by a Cincinnati authority to use a drug called freesone, which the moment a few drops are applied CUTICURA HEALS any corn or callous the soreness Is SORE HANDS to relieved and soon the entire corn or That Itch, Bum, Crack, Chap and callous, root and all, lifts o ff with the fingers. Bleed— Trial Free. Freexone dries the moment It Is ap­ In a wonderfully short time In most plied. and simply shrivels the corn or cases these fragrant, super-creamy callous without Inflaming or even Ir­ emollients succeed. Soak hands on ritating the surrounding tissue or retiring In the hot suds o f Cutlcura skin. A small bottle of freesone w ill Soap, dry and rub Cutlcura Ointment cost very little at any o f the drag Into the hands for some time. Re­ stores, but w ill positively rid one’s move surplus Ointment with soft tis­ feet of every bard or soft corn or hardened callous. I f your druggist sue paper. Free sample each by mall with hasn't any freexone he can get It at Book. Address postcard. Cutlcura, any wholesale drag house for yon. Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. No. 37, 1917. P. N. U. — Adv.