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Ankcr-Holth Cream Separator The original and only real self balancing bowl. The separator with a real speed in dicator that is good for a lifetime. The light running and close skim ming separator. Write us for catalogue. THE J. C. ROBINSON CO., 44 Firrt Street, PORTLAND, ORE, PI5CHERS AUTO BED Hi N SUle Representative 66.Sixth St., PORTLAND, ORE. Sleep on your Seat Cushions. Compact Fits under the rear teat. Write for circulars. Agents Write for Special Offer FIVE DAYS' FREE TRIAL on guar anteed Rebuilt ma chines. We are al ' bo agents for the WOODSTOCK Write'for booklet. -The-Rebuilt Typewriter Co., 304 Oak il, Ponlioi, Or DELCO-LIGHT The complete Electric Light and Power Plant Clean, safe electric light and power at the touch of a convenient button. MODERN APPLIANCE CO., Seattle, Wn. Uteres I dealer in your territory. Please write us. EVERYTHING FOR THE OFFICE Office Furniture & Appliances Printing .-: Engra ving Bookbinding Marshall 6080 A6548 FIFTH ft OAK STREETS PORTLAND. OREGOr. COMPLETE LINE OF STEEL FILING DEVICES AND SYSTEMS Little Brother's Guess. Baby had just cut her first tooth and of course all in the family were talking about it. The next day, while the family was eating dinner, the baby began to cry and little brother looked up with, a twinkle in his eye and said: "What is the matter, baby? Have you got the toothache?" Never Learned It. We asked the young lady across the way if she ever used the thesaurus when she had anything to write and she said she'd never learned to oper ate it and still used her fountain pen. That grounded maxim, so rife and celebrated in the mouths of wisest men, that to the public good private respects must yield. Milton. Earn More Young Women and Men r BuBiness cries for trained minds. Grasp your opportunity. Enorll now in Northwest's biggest business college, Behnke-Walker, Portland. Free Catalog, Hides, Pelts, cra Wool & Mohair We Fill 10 TM bn. Write ht Prices EniSWwaj? Tags. THE H. F. NORTON COMPANY, Portland, Ore.. Seattle, Wn.. Bellingham, Wn. f f Tf Veal, Pork, Beef, NIH I I- Poultry, Butter, Egga "a AAA anij Farm Produce, to the Old Reliable Everding- house with a record of 46 years of Square Dealings, and be assured of TOP MARKET PRICES. F. M. CRONKHITE, 45-47 Front Street, Portland, Oregon FRED DUNDEE MOTOR CAR REPAIRING MACHINE WORK MAGNETO SERVICE STATION ALL KINDS OF WELDING CYLINDER GRINDING PROMPT ATTENTION TO ALL ORDERS! Broad way at Flandera, Portland, Or. P. N. U. No. 29, 1918 1 SCHOOL SUPPLIES Not'thwaat fif'hnnl Flirnltura, C.n . 5AA irA St. Everything for aehoole. Also theatre chalra, church furniture. Foldlne chalra and aeata. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES Puller'i Telearaph School, ; .mama Mid., quallflea you for I(ir to 186 poaltlone In ahort tlm, Write for catalogue, MISS DECKER'S Private Bualneae Col lege. Allaky lildg., 3d & Morrlaon BU. tmm imm cmmi Will taBnh tu.. in a i.. ..... ..aiii ,uu ma uaun in . Tfnons. Pay you while learning, get you a poel tlon, 234 Burnalde St. 8 PHYSICAL THERAPEUTICS Dr. It. A. Phillips, 906 Broadway Bldg. DlMordera of the atomach, liver, kldneya, bowela, goitre, high blood preaaure and female dlaordera. ELECTRIC-THERAPY Dra, MacPheraon & Wllllama. No. 122 V4 Orund Ave. Acute and chronic dlseimes, rheumatlnm, goiter and female troublea, treated by electricity. CARBON PAPER et TYPEWRITER RIBBON Slmmona Carbon Paper Co., 609 K. (9th North. All kinds of carbon paper, extra durable typewriter rlbbone. AQATE CUTTERS & MFQ. JEWELERS Jewelry and watch repairing. Miller's, 3D6 Waah. St., Mnjeatlc Theater Bldg. AUTO ACCESSORIES Motora, gears, bearings, wheels, axlea, and trailers. We wreck all makea of cars and aell their parte at half price. David Hodes Co., N. Broadway and Flandera. ACETYLENE LIQHTINCiYSTEM8i Pilot Generators Installed. All kinds of Supplies. J. W. Clancy 838 E. Morrison St KANT-KICK-KRANK FOR FORD CARS: KANT-KICK-KRANK can be attuched to Ford cars by anyone in 15 minutes. When attached you can crank your car with absolutely no fear of kick back. Ask your Hard ware or Garage man about It. If your local dealer cannot supply you, write direct for prices and full Information. AGENTS WANTED. C. A. CLOYED, 5933 46th Ave. S. E,, Portland, Oregon. BULK GRAIN ELEVATOR Any Size. None Too Small; None Too Large. WOOD OR CONCRETE. Inmtigate Const rodic-D it lone. Ore., ami Milton, Ore. FRANK; C. BURRELL CO. Lewis Building PORTLAND, OREGON $1.00 Without Bali $1.50 With Bath Weekly Rates Monthly Rates NORTONIA HOTEL PORTLAND, ORE. Central.Location. Beautifully Furnished Excellent Cafe. 11th and Stark. One Cause of Failure. We are fickle and uncertain, ever falling, ever liable to be disappointed and dissatisfied, often only because we have not realized our appointed mis sion and its necessities. Rev. T. T. Carter. Might Have Changed History. Joseph's correct interpretation of Pharaoh's dream of the fat and the lean kine, and the full and withered ears, saved a mighty nation from hun ger. Had Caesar but heeded Calpur nia's dream and not gone out the eventful day, Rome might have still been what she was. If Pilate had paid attention to his wife's dream, the Scriptures would give us a different story about the Savior. Optimistic Thought It is to live twice when you can en joy a retrospect of your former life. Cuticura Complexions. Nothing better than Cuticura Soap daily and Ointment as needed to make the complexion clear, scalp clean and hands soft and white. For free sam ples address "Cuticura, Dept. X, Bos ton." Sold by druggists and by mall. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50. Adv. Cuticura Promotes Hair Health Soap 25c. Ointment 25c 50c New Houston Hotel Sixth and Everett Shu. Portland, Ore. Four blocks from Union Deoot. Two blocki from! New Poatoffiee. Modern and fireproof Oyer lOOlontaide rooms. Rata, 75c to 12.00. CHAS. C. HOPKINS. Manager 200 Rooms 100 Baths Near Both Depots Absohrtehr Fireproof Hotel Hoyt Corner Sixth and Hart Sta, Portland, Ore. LOU HIMES. Manager. RATES.- 7 6e to XL SFECIAIr-Week 'or Month ft! ill A, pi ; in M pas ' Seek si STEEL SHORTAGE IS FEARED Private Consumers of Metal May lie Required to Submit Inventories. Washington, D. C Government de mand for steel has reached Biich pro portions, It was learned Wednesday, because of the growth of the war pro gramme, that the War Industries board fears present sources of supply soon will prove inadequate. At the meeting of tho board manu facturers wore warned that those who have obtained steel on priority orders for war work and lator wore found to be reselling It to non-war manufactur ers would have their supply cut off. This practice has been In vogue, the board learned. All private consumers of stool and steel products may be required to sub mit sworn Inventories of their stocks on hand. It was found that many manufacturers had obtained large quantities of steel before the govern ment took control of the entire output. By means of the Inventories, J. Leonard Replogle, director of steel supply of the War- Industries board, will be able to keep a close check on ail steel in the country. Chairman Hurley, of the Shipping board, conferred with officials of the War Industries board regarding the requirements for the shipbuilding pro gramme. Production of ships is show ing such a marked improvement that it may be possible to turn out five ships a year from each way in some yards, four ships in other yards, and lesser numbers elsewhere. If efforts to bolster up the efficiency of the weaker new yards are success ful, it Is evident to officials that the size of steel plate mills must be in creased or the shipping programme will be delayed by lack of material. A shortage of steel already is being felt in some shipyards. Others have more steel than they need, which, officials believe, is the result of "cost plus" system of contracts, under which the builders felt free to expend large sums on materials not needed for many weeks. i FINNS MAY BALK AT WAR IN SIBERIA London. Finland Intends to remain neutral if a serious conflict occurs in the Murman country, where entente allied forces have assumed control, says a Helslngfors dispatch by way of Copenhagen to the Exchange Tele graph company. The Nord Deutsche Allgemeine Zeit ung of Berlin declares that Germany has sufficient forces in Finland to deal with the entente troops and the Red Guards. A bill providing for the establish ment of a monarchy in Finland has passed its second reading in the Fin nish parliament by the narrow margin of four votes. Republicans have started an ener getic agitation against the bill and it is not improbable, the dispatch adds, that the Finnish government will have to resign, as the majority in favor of the bill is Insufficient. Gei.3ral Horvath, recently proclaim ed ruler of Siberia, says a Pekin dis patch to the Times, has expressed will ingness to facilitate the movement of Czechoslovak troops toward tne Transbaikal region over the Chinese Eastern railway. The Czechs purpose to reach Irkutsk and resume communication with their compatriots in western Siberia and will formally ask the Chinese govern ment for permission to traverse Man churia. There are indications, the dispatch adds, that some Austrian prisoners are anxious to join the Czechs. Five Hundred Seamen Perish. Tokio. The Japanese battleship Kawachl of 21,420 tons displacement, blew up and sank in Tokoyama bay, 150 miles northeast of Nagasaki, on July 12. Five hundred members of the crew lost their lives. The battleship Kawachl was built in 1912 and carried a complement of 960 officers and men. She was BOO feet long, of 84 feet beam and drew 28 feet of water. Her armament con sisted of 12 12-inch guns, 10 six-inch guns, eight four-inch guns and 12 12 pounders. She also was equipped with five 18-inch torpedo tubes. An Atlantic Port. The sinking at sea July 11 of the American steamship Oosterdijk after a collision with the American steamship San Jacinto was reported by a Swedish steamship ar riving here Wednesday. The Oosterdijk s crew was taken aboard the San Jacinto, which, al though badly damaged, managed to reach an Atlantic port. Both vessels, manned and officered by naval crews, carried army supplies. The collision occurred in North Atlan tic waters. The Oosterdijk, 8252 gross tons, was one of the Dutch ships requisitioned while in an American port. Two, Parted By Sea, Wed. Frederick City, Md. Although sep arated by the Atlantic ocean, Miss Goldie Anita Black, of Thurmont, and Guy V. Lewis, who is "somewhere in France," were married Wednesday. The ceremony in this country was per formed at the home of the bride's par ents by Rev. E. O. Pritchett, while Lieutenant Warred, an army chaplain, officiated across the sea. The cere mony was arranged after considerable communication. Everything was car ried out simultaneously in the two countries. Young Lewis is a member of the Aviation corps. Cripples to Be Cared For, Washington, D. C. The movement among private citizens for finding jobs for crippled soldiers Is emphatically disapproved by the war department. Surgeon-General Gorgas declared Wed nesday that the rehabilitation of the crippled men will be done thoroughly by the government. Recently Captain Archibald Roosevelt asked bis fattier, Colonel Roosevelt, to find a Job for one of his sergeants who returned from France, after having lost a hand. OF 1 FUTILE Washington Ignores Speech of Chancellor von Hertling. HUN MOTIVE IS SEEN Preaident Believes Germany Willing to Give Up on West Front If She Can Get Control of Russia. Washington, D. C Germany's lateBt peace offensive, the crest of which has apparently been reached In the speech of Von Hurtling before the main Reich stag committee has apparently caused only a slight ripple of Interest In the official world here. Team work on tho part of Austria is indicated In an official dispatch Sunday from Switzerland, which says reports of the repulse by allied lega tions In Berne of an alleged Austrian peace emissary have been confirmed by the Journal of Geneva. According to the reports, an Aus trian from the pacifist party of Pro fessor Lammasch presented himself at several legations of the allied powers at Berne, but in no case was he re ceived. Professor Lammasch on several for mer occasions is Bald to have made peace overtures to representatives of the allied countries. No official cognizance is being given here to the latest peace speech of Ger man Chancellor von Hertling. The chancellor's statement that his willingness to discuss peace was shar ed by the chief of the army adminis tration was regarded as the first peace expression attributed to the military leaders. More definite peace proposals from the German government would not be unexpected. President Wilson is known to be lieve that Germany Ib bent on gaining control of Russia and would willingly give up everything on the western front to accomplish that purpose. Amsterdam. A semi-official tele gram received here Sunday from Vien na says: "There have been many rumors late ly that Austro-Hungarlan agents in Spain and Switzerland have been seeking to establish contact with en tente emissaries with a view to mak ing overtures for peace. All such ru mors are unfounded. VETO $2.40 BUSHEL WHEAT President Wilson Declares Farmers' Loyalty Is Above Price. Washington, D. C In vetoing -the $28,000,000 annual agricultural appro priation bill because of Its amendment fixing the government guaranteed min imum wheat price at $2.40 a bushel: the president informed congress that he did not believe the farmers of America "depend upon a stimulation of price to do their utmost to serve the nation and the world at this time of crisis." The president said the patriotic spirit of the farmers has been "worthy of all praise and has shown them play ing a most admirable and gratifying part in the full mobilization of the re sources of the country," He added that the bumper crops they have raised this year have re lieved "the anxiety of the nations ar rayed against Germany with regard to their food supplies. Congress was informed that the president did not believe that such inelastic price provisions as contained in the bill could be administered in a way that would be advantageous to the producer and consumer, because they established arbitrary levels which are quite independent of the normal market conditions. The administrative method in fixing prices, he said, has been entirely satis factory and should be continued. A fixed minimum price of $2.40 a bushel, the president said, would In crease the price of flour from $10.50 to $12.50 a barrel and would put an additional burden of $387,000,000 this year on the consumers. Such an increase in price, he said, would force a similar increase in Can ada, thus enlarging the whole scale of financial operations in this country by the allied governments and affecting practically the entire world. War Tax Tells 8tory. Washington, D. C The American people are spending more for amuse ments but less for travel as the war progresses. That fact is revealed by the May receipts of taxes collected by the Internal revenue bureau. War taxes from all sources collected In May amounted to $123,396,104. Taxes collected during May by the 10 per cent charge on admissions to theaters. concerts, and like places amounted to $4,524,996. In February, taxes from the same source totalled $3,708,000. The 8 per cent tax on passenger fares during May yielded $3,723,920. Yukon May Get Food Controller, Dawson, Y. T. Representations are being made by officials to Ottawa that a food controller should be appointed for the Yukon Territory, or that spe cial provisions should be made for this country as has been done for Alaska by the United States. It is said that many regulations applicable to the rest of Canada are impractica ble here and distance from Ottawa causes confusion in efforts to conform local conditions to general food regu lations. PEACE i H GERMAN HARVEST AT WALLA WALLA Hot Weather and Winds Rapidly Rip en Fields of Grain. Walla Walla. Temperature of close to 100 degrees In the field, with a north wind blowing, bai rapidly ripen ed the wheat this week and many out fits will take the field to commence harvest. The lack of rain In the last few weeks has prevented the grain from filling out This ii especially true of spring grain. Estimates made by farmers are that the yield will be about the same as last year for spring wheat or possibly a little less. Fall sown wheat will yield fairly well, however. There will be lots of wheat harvested In the valley, but the grain will not be as well divided among the farmers as last year, when nearly all obtained a good percentage of their crop. This year spring sown grain was badly pinched. By the last of this week the harvest will be well started, it Is believed. . Plow Beet Field In Fall. Yakima, As It has . been demon strated this year that fall plowing Is of distinct advantage to farmers who expect to grow sugar beets success fully, and Is of benefit to the prepara tion of the ground for any crop, the officials of the reclamation and Indian services have decided to change their regulations regarding the shutting off of irrigation water and have assured the farmers they can make their ar rangements this fall not only for fall plowing, but for fall seeding as well, Indian Agent Don M. Carr Is also working to have the terms of Indian leases lengthened from three to eight years that farmers may plan their work to better advantage. It is shown conclusively In the valley this year that beets sown early on tall plowed ground have not blighted and will make a very heavy tonnage. Tleton Farmers Vote Bonds Yakima. At an election held on the leton project the water users voted for the expenditure of $150,000 carry ing the authorization of Improvements to the main canals, which will Insure them an Increased water supply. The work to be done is the raising of the concrete walls of the canal for a dis tance of two miles, and the steel for reenforcement and the cement and other materials will be ordered by the board of directors of the Tieton Water Users' association, which will meet here soon to canvass the vote. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT Portland Wheat Bulk basis, Port land for No. 1 grade: Hard wheat- Bluestem, Early Bart, Allen Galgulus, Martin Amber, $2.05. Soft white Palouse Bluestem, Fortyfold, White Valley, Gold Coin, White Russian, $2.03. White Club Little Club, Jen kins' Club, White Hybrids, Sonora, $2.01. Red Walla Red Russian, Red Hybrids, Jones Fife, Coppel, $1.98. No. 2 grade, 3c less; No. 3 grade, 6o less. Other grains handled by samples. Flour Patents, $10; valley, $9.60 whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20; barley flour, $11 per barrel; rye flour, $11.50; cornmeal, $10.6011.40; corn flour $11.70. Millfeed Net millfeed prices, car- lots: Bran, $30 per ton; shorts, $32; middlings, $32; mixed cars and less than carloads 60c more; rolled barley, $7475; rolled oats, $69. Corn Whole, $73; cracked, $74 per ton. Hay Buying prices, f. o. b. Port land: Eastern Oregon timothy, $32 33 per ton; valley timothy, $2728 alfalfa, $2424.50; valley grain hay, $2426; clover, $21; straw, $910, Butter Cubes, extra, 45c; prime firsts, 44c; prints, extras, 4748c cartons, l2c extra; butterfat, No. 47 51c per pound delivered Portland; 2 fa; 3c less at stations. Eggs Oregon ranch, current re ceipts, 37c; candled, 41c; selects, 42c per dozen. Poultry Hens, 2627c; broilers 3032c; ducks, young, 30c; geese and turkeys, nominal. Veal Fancy, 19c per pound. Pork Fancy, 23c per pound. FruitB Cherries, 512o per lb. peaches, 65$1.40; new apples, $2.25 a.50 per box; loganberries, $1.75 per crate; raspberries, $3 per crate: plums $2.252.50 per box; apricots, $1.752 per box. ' Vegetables Tomatoes, $23.00 per crate; cabbage, 23c per pound lettuce, $2.50 per crate; cucumbers. $1.252 per dozen; garlic, 7c; pep pers, 2540c per lb.; peas, 810c per pound; beans, 1212o per pound; cel ery, $i.25igl.&0 per dozen. Sack Vegetables Carrots, $2 per sack; turnips, $22.25; parsnips, $1.25; beets, $2.25. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, $1.50 1 2 per hundred; new, 3c per pound. Onions Yellow, $2.60 per sack; red, $2 per sack. Hops 1917 crop, 1314c per pound contracts, 1617c. Wool Eastern Oregon, mohair, Oregon, new clip, 55c per lb, TCattle " , July 13.U918. Prime steers $12.00ffll3.00 Good to choice steers..., 11.0012.00 Medium to good steers.. 9.0010.00 Fair to medium steers . . 8.00 9.00 Common to fair steers . , 5.00 8.00 Choice cows and heifers. 8.50 9.00 Med. to good cows and hf 6.00 7.60 Canners 3.00 4.50 Bulls 6.00 8.00 Calves 8.5011.00 Stockers and feeders,... 7.00 9.00 Hogs Prime mixed $17.2517.60 Medium mixed. ........ 16.7517.25 Rough heavies 16.25ftil6.50 Pigs 16.7516.25 Bulk 17.25 Sheep Lambs $13.5014.00 Valley lambs 13.O013.60 Yearlings 9.0010.00 Wethers j... 8.00 9.00 Ewes...i 6.60 8.00 URGED All OPERATION Instead I took Lydia L Pink- hain't Vegetable Compound and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md. "Nearly four years sulfered from organic troubles, ner vousness and need eches and every month would ha ve to stay in bed moat of the timo. Treat ment would relieve me for a time but my doctor was al ways urging- me to .have an operation. My sister asked me :to try Lydia E. Pink- h a m's Vegetable Compound before consenting to an y operation. I took five bottles of it and I it has completely cured me and my work is a pleasure. I toll all my friends who have any trouble of this kind what Lydia JU. I'inknams veeetnDie im pound has done for me. NuLLIB B. Bkittingham, 009 Calverton ltd., Haiti more, Md. It is only natural for any woman M dread the thought of an operation. So many women have been restored w health by this famous remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after an operation has been advised that it will pay any woman who suffers from such ailments to consider trying it be fore submitting to such a trying ordeal. People to Avoid. Some people," said Uncle Eben, regards glvln' good advice as a form of amusement, Bame as telling funny stories. AT AN END the "female complaints" and weaknesses that make woman's life a misery. They are relieved by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. For all the derangements, disor ders, and diseases peculiar to the sex, this is the only remedy certain to benefit. ' J r! It s a le<lmate medicine f for woman, carefully adapt- f ed to her delicate organiza- I I tlon, and never conflicting I with any of her conditions. a Tfr .nmilnln. n .1 ,1 nwtmnln. all the proper functions, builds up and Invigorates the entire syBtem, and re stores health and strength. Are you weak, nervous and ailing, or "run-down and overworked? Then it will bring you special help. It's the mother's friend. It lessens pain and insures life of both mother and child. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has a record of years of cures. It is the most potent invigorating tonic and strengthening nervine known to medi cal science. It is made of the glyceric extracts of native medicinal roots found In our forests and contains not a drop of alcohol or harmful drugs. Sol ldnTbal EATOIN XZ& VB Sold in Tablet or Liquid form by deal ers. Tablets 60c Adv. Alcohol From Sawdust. Experiments have shown that a ton of dry sawdust will yield with proper treatment twenty to twenty-five gal lons of 96 per cent ethyl or grain alco hol. Aged by Monotonous Work. Men of the laboring classes wear out earlier than men of other classes be cause they have no break or variation In their work, no rest, no change. It is not effort, but continuous monoton ous labor which ages a man. Ex change. Not Due to Religious Ardor. Shears "How is it that Scribleigh has been attending church so regularly of late?" Typo "Why, he says that he likes to go where he is always sure of having his contributions accepted." The Lamb. '..4.4Hfr.4....'4"..H Hurrah! How's This Cincinnati authority says corns dry up and lift out with fingers. Ouch !?!?!! This kind of rough talk will be heard less here In town If people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to a tender, aching corn or hardened callous stops soreness at once, and soon the corn or callous dries up and lifts right off without pain. He says freezone dries immediately and never Inflames or even irritates the surrounding skin. A small bottle of freezone will cost very little at any drug store, but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callous from one's ftet. Millions of America's women will welcome this announce ment since the Inauguration of the high heels. If your druggist doesn't have freezone tell him to order a small bottle for you. Adv. "To Thine Ownself Be True." If a man has nothing to reproach himself with, he can bear anything. Phillips Brooks. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu late liver, bowels and stomach. Horse's Musical Senae. The musical acuteness of horses Is shown by the rapidity with which cav alry horses learn the significance of trumpet calls. s AMA Granulated Eyelids. irtj Eyet inflamed by expo- eureioaun, uuaianu nine quickly relieved by Muriol LVKM CysBemedj. No Smarting, W Juat Eye Comfort. At Druggiiti or by mail iOc per Bottle. Marine tyt Salve in Tubes 25c. For Book tl the Eyt fien aak Marls Cya Remedy Ce., Cklcig DOCTOR 4)-