ACTS OF HEROISM TO BE REWARDED Men of National Army Will Be Accorded Same Recognition as Regulars. MEDALS OF HONOR PRIZED Change* May Be Made In Present Law — How Some Enlisted Men In the United States Army Won Medals for Valor. By EDW ARD D. CLARK. Washington, Young Americans who ImvM been selected for service In the new National army should know tliut tbe miiiim * recognition for Individual ariM of imtmoiiu I gallantry In the field will ho accorded lliem under tint law llial la now given to officers and men of ihu regular servlcu. Tlierc are enlisted men In tin* serv- Ice today who have won mi'dula of honor for conspicuous personal gal- lunlry In tin* Held, und It can he Maid that the possession of omt of these metal trib ute* to courage la prized above nil tiling* else that the govero- ment can I ich I o w . Hy the time that the new American army troopa In any numbers strike the Germans In France, It Is probable that congress will have made some changes In the lnw m governing the giv­ ing of cert Idea tea of merit and medals of honor for high acts of courage ou the field of battle. T h e r e Is a law governing In the mat­ ter today, hut It Is said that army o f­ ficers believe It to be hedged In with mo many requirements that some men who deserve certificates of merit nre prevented from getting their earned rewards. The changes which prob- nid.v are to be made will In no way aid the undeserving to secure prizes which are Intended to go only to those whose conduct Is of the highest In face of great danger. Young men who nre about (o enter Ihe training ramps should know that In Ibis mailer of reeognltlon for courage, they will be on the same footing with commis­ sioned officers. Gallantry In man. not gallantry In rank, Is the thing recog­ nized. How Medals Have Been Won. It Is possible that men selected for service In the new National army, and perhaps others, may tie Interested to learn how a few of the many enlisted men In the United States army have earned their medals "fo r valor." When i'lister's expedition struck In­ to the Sioux country In 1H70, the com­ manding otbeer ordered Major Iteno with Ids squadron of the Seventh to miiko the detour to the right. Custer then rode Into the valley, where with his command’ he met his death. Iteno striking to the right met a huge force o f the Minus and In a bitter battle which followed he tost many men. While this engagement was at Its height, u pack mule carrying a con­ siderable part <>f tbe carbine ammuni­ tion of tbe troopers broke away and galloped toward the Indians. An en­ listed man named Hanley knew what the loss of ammunition meant and he left his troop and circling round to the right tie managed to capture the mule at a point directly lu front o f the Indian line. Hanley threw himself on tho ani­ mal's back and lushing It Into a run, made straight back for his command. Ho was under tho close and direct tiro of the Indians. Hundreds of rllles barked nt him, but he escaped un­ scathed hy u seeming miracle. The ammunition vns saved and congress, recognizing the enlisted man's devo­ tion and gallantry, voted to glvo him tlie coveted modul of honor for his high service. The bushwhacking war In tho Phil­ ippines produced of heroes a hundred, hut the world usuully wns given only TRAIN STALLED BY the niiiuea of the commanding officers In the tights which made Individual heroism possible. Who, on reading these lines, can remember ever before bavlng seen or beard Ihu nnuie Louis tied eon ? Escape Was Marvelous. Not ao long ago "O ” company of the Nineteenth Infantry went Into ac­ tion near Mount Alula, Cebu, Philip­ pine Islands. The captain of the com­ pany was mortally wounded and the fortunes o f the light left him on tbe Held defended only by Private Loula Gedeon. A force of the enemy ad­ vanced to give the captain his death stroke, but the private soldier faithful to Ids duty and to bis officer faced the oncoming band, us army record hath It, “ single handed and alone.” Although exposed to a concentrated fire, Gedeon hy his marvelous markmanshlp, aided materially hy his coolness In the pres­ ence of what seemed certain dentil, kept tlie enemy back. Private fled eon might have escaped. He could have slipped Into a ravine and have Joluei] the main body of troops. In fact, It Is said that the stricken officer, knowing that his own wound was fatul, ordered Ocdeon to leave him, but the prlvute soldier's answer was to kneel by bis officer’s side and to offer bis body ns a pro­ tection. (ledeon’s escape that day wns ns marvelous as anything ever set down III the pages of fiction. He held his own and help came before the pri­ vate's wounded charge died. The offi­ cer whom the private had saved from the knives and the bullets o f the en­ emy breathed his last, surrounded hy the men of his command. Congress recognized the brnvery of George M Shelton, who was a prlvute of I Company, Twenty-third Infuntry. In giving the soldier his medal It was ordered set down In the records that the rcuson for Ihe gift was “ most con­ spicuous gallantry In action.” The Twenty-third Infantry went Into n light at LnPiiz, Luzon, Philippine Is­ lands. A soldier of the command was wounded and left on the field. The spot where the Infantryman fell was commanded hy the rlfh-s of the enemy. Private Hhelton saw the plight of his comrade, und without waiting for or­ ders he advanced alone directly Into the open, his appears.ice being a di­ rect und speedily accepted Invltutlon for tbe enemy to concentrate Its Are upon him. Hhelton went on with the shots playing about him, picked up the wounded man und carried him back along a path o f fire until he was safe within the lines. Had a Soldier's Soul. Augustus W alley of the Tenth cav­ alry was n cook. He wus connected with Troop K of the Tenth. Augustus Walley, cook, had a soldier’s soul. In the summer o f 1M81, Troop K wus In the held In pursuit of hostile Apache Indians. The command arrived at the f ’uchlllo Negro mountains. New Mexi­ co, and ran Into a large hand of the hostlles. A sergeant of the troop was shot hy the first fire from the con­ cealed reds and he fell from his horse at the base of a rock, which luckily protected him from further fire. The troop wus compelled to full hack un­ der the suddenness of the attack and the sergeant was left where he fell. Wulley, the rook, saw that while the stricken “ noncom” temporarily was safe because o f the shelter of the rock, he knew that If the Indians moved to either flunk they could pick off the wounded rnun with their rifles, and so Cook W alley charged across the open without waiting any word of command, and ran along a zone of fierce fire to the aide of the sergeant, plcki-d him up, brought him hack and dropped him Inside the lines. For that uctlon congress gave this cook whose spirit was that of u soldier a medal of honor, for he had upheld the best bravery traditions of the Ameri­ can army. VIROLE FAMILIES ENLIST FOR WAR Suvnnnnh, Gn.— A fter ccntributlng her share to the military establish­ ment of the United States nml doing her full part In the Liberty bond pur­ chases and contributing to the lied Cross fund. Kavnnnuh now offers the country two families of four sons each, all of whom nre serving with the colors. Bernard L. McDonald of the city health department, pnst sixty years of age, towers above ull his sons. He Is the father of 24 feet of men In Bat­ tery A. Chatham artillery. Ills four “ boys” nre Bill, Bob. Alex and Bee- Bee McDonald. Kuch Is more than six feet In height and strong In pro­ portion. They are ull good soldiers. All four are noncommissioned officers. Hob Is the youngest und the short­ est, being a scant six feet. Bill, next In youth. Is tho tallest, exceeding Bob In height by an Inch and n half. Alex, the eldest, and Bee-IJee are Just an Inch shorter thnn Bill. Their futher’s height Is six feet two Inches, nnd the only reason thut ho Is not with them Is that they will not let him enlist. Besides the disadvantage o f his age he bus only one arm. All of these boys will accompany their* battery to France. The story o f Mrs. A. W . Cook Is thnt of Spnrtnn sacrifice. Mrs. Cook hns given four sons to her country, and she Is proud, not sad, nt this op­ portunity for service, even though she Is dependent upon them for her sup­ port. The sons range In age from seventeen to twenty-five. They are Hurley, Frank, Le Itoy nnd Calhoun Cook, ull of whom are nt the training camp nt Fort McPherson. Frank nnd Hurley nre privates In tho First Georgia Infantry and Le Roy and Cal­ houn nre enlisted men lu Battery A, Chatham artillery. BEARS BOYS ARE TAUGHT FARMING Held Up In Pennsylvania Woods for Half Hour by Bruin*— Engi­ neer Has Scare. Camping and Living Like Soldiers Bring Results in North Da­ kota. Johnsonhurg, Pa.— A log train on tho Dahoga h Highland railroad wns held np for a half hour by two largo black bears south of Highland. Tho log train was moving slowly up Ihe hillside when Engineer Johnson discovered I ho two hears, weighing about .’100 pounds each, stnndlng on the truck a few hundred feet ahead of tho train. As the train approached tho spot they failed to move. Johuson pulled tho bell cord, but tho clang of tlio bell or tho blast of the whistle failed to frighten the bruin*, who stood nnd gnzed at the ap- pronelilng train. Knowing that It would be Impossible to kill the bears at the «peed his heuvy train wns moving up the hill, and fearing un attack If he Injured them, Johnson stopped tho train, and badly frightened, watched the bears for about half an hour, when they slowly wandered off Into tbe forests. Fnrgo, N. D.— When the hoys of Ad­ ams county wished to learn the lesson o f "better farming" they wore taken to n nearby river where camp wns pitched. For n week the boys led a military life, rose by bugle rail and rolled Into their blankets nt the sound o f taps. The day was given over to lectures nnd demonstrations on how large and better crops could be raised. Tho directors o f tho enmp asserted thnt they had more success with the hoys this year than last, when tho farming course wns conducted in the achoolhouso at the county seat Chains 76-Pound Catfish. Arkansas City, Ark.— Unable to pull a 75-pound catfish from the Arknnsns River dnm, Bloomer Allen, an Arkan­ sas City fisherman, chained the fish and dragged It through the river to this city, a distance of four mile*. Scarcely had the call to the colors been made when the four elder sons offered their services. A fifth son, Wallace Cook, aged fourteen years. Is eager for the time to come when he, too, may serve. Mrs. Cook says she hopes to he able to get along very well without her boys during their absence. At any rate, she Is happy to make this sacrifice for the sake of her country. She bus offered her personal services to the Savannuh branch of the Amer­ ican Red Cross. Another noteworthy example of Georgia pntrlotlsin Is that of Mrs. Es­ ther Gaddis o f Atlanta, who, after giv­ ing three sons to the colors and her daughter to the Red Cross, Is prepar­ ing herself to go to the Charleston (S. C.) navy yard to run a sewing ma­ chine for Uncle Sam. Mrs. Caddis is nearly sixty. Offers Herself. Several weeks ngo her youngest son, Dewey, nineteen, enlisted in the ma­ rines. and is now In training at Paris Island, S. C. Shortly thereafter Elmer Perkins, Bged thirty-two, son of Mrs. Gaddis by her first husband, enlisted as a shipwright nnd now is In train­ ing nt Portland, Ore. Joe Perkins, aged twenty-eight, has been In the navy four years. When Mrs. Gaddis wrote her daughter, Dorothy, a vaude­ ville actress, the girl did not take time to answer hy mall, but telegraphed her mother Immediately: “ It seems to run In the family, so I applied today for enlistment In the American Red Cross.” Not Altogether Free. “ The rule of despots is about over." “ What are you talking about 1 W e may put kings nnd kaisers out o f busi­ ness, but wives will remain on the Job.” When he reached the city several men assisted him In pulling the fish out of the water. HIS FACE WAS “FAMILIAR” Buffalo Man Did Not Recognize Broth­ er Till Explanation Is Made. nopklnsvllle, Ky.— Vego E. Rnme# la bnck from Buffalo, where he went to see a certain man and met him on the street. "H ow nre you. O rvtllet" said Mr. Bnrnes, extending his hnnd. The Buffalo man, with the nutural suspic­ ion o f an Easterner meeting a strang­ er, hesitated. “ Your face Is familiar,” he said; " I ’m sure Fve seen it before, but who are you?" “ Merely your brother,” Vego explained. It wns the first time they had met In twelve years. And They Never Gossip. nobbs— I understand you are living next to tho cemetery out your way. How do you like it? Dobb#— First rate. Good neighbors. Quiet and peaceable. And they haven’t borrowed a thing from us since we’ve been there. LABOR SUPPLY SHORT ! « « « :* * * * * * * * * + * * * * * * * * * * * * 5 Kostern Washington Industries Huffer On Account o f Men Heing Taken for War Union is Formed. i SILO QUALIFICATIONS. ' * It should be air-tight, to keep J the air out and the Juices la. £ lt should be smooth, to permit ^ the silage to settle without leav- £ * Ing air spaces along the wall. * It should be constructed o f w durable material which will not £ decay or blow down. x The diameter should be such # that from two to three Inches of £ silage will be fed off each day. t There Is an advantage In the £ tall silo, because the silage at £ the bottom Is compressed by the J weight o f that above. * It should he so built that J It can withstand the bursting £ pressure of tbe silage. Tbe ^ weight of silage differs from £ year to year, according to the « amount of moisture In tbe all- £ .Spokane— A labor shortage o f 10,000 J woodsmen and mill operatives faces 9 timber operators o f eastern Washing -1 ton and Oregon and northern Idaho, it was declared here Thursday at a meet­ ^ ing o f the lo g g e r s ’ club, composed of # lumbermen of that section and attend-I 5 ed also by several operators from Mon­ ♦ tana. J O f these, 7000 were loet by army * enlistment or draft, it was stated, but £ about as many now engaged in har- J I vesting and firefighting w ill be avail­ * able for woods work later. The oper­ ♦ ators took no action on wages, and no a decision for uniform resumption of J operations was announced. 5 a«*. # Flans for circulating among lumber * t manufacturesrs and their employes pe­ * ¥ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * titions for congress asking for a uni-' versa! eigth-hour day in the lumber FEEDING FARM WORK HORSES industry were formulated and the club reaffirmed its indorsement o f the eight- Farmers Are Urged to Utilize Home- Grown Feeds to Fullest Extent— hour'day. Grain It Essential. A resolution indorsing the boycott of coast building trades unions against lumber manufactured in camps and In feeding horses utilize home­ mills running 10 hours a day was grown feeds to the fullest extent. In passed by the local Central Labor a section where corn can be well ma­ council, and referred to the Spokane tured. this grain ought to constitute Building Trades council. the greater portion o f the concentrated Application fo r a charter in the feed fo r work horses. American Federation o f Labor was Corn alone can be used as a grain made to the Central I.abor council by feed for work horses If a good quality a newly organized union o f mill w o rk -; o f alfalfa or clover hay is fed for era and timbermen, which it was de­ roughage. When combined with mixed clared has 400 members. It is com -! hay or timothy hay, a grain combina­ mitted to the principle o f the eight- tion o f three parts corn and one part hour day, it was announced. oats by weight Is a satisfactory mix­ — ture. I f oats are scarce and high in price, HUNTERS FIND GAME SCARCE cottonseed-meal or ollmeai may be substituted for the protein furnished First Venture in Eastern Washington by the oats. One-third to one-half Brings Poor Results. pound o f linseed meal will, with the amount secured through mixed hay, North Yakima — Hunters who went furnish sufficient protein for a 1,500- into the hills Sunday and Monday for pound working horse. grouse did not find the birds plentiful | A horse at farm worjt requires from and few o f them got full bags. Game ! U 4 to 1% pounds o f grain per 100 Warden Greenman and a deputy sta -: pounds live weight dally. Feed grain tioned themselves at the forks o f two sufficient to keep the horse In good roads leading into the most popular working condition. Hay may be lim­ districts for hunters Sunday evening ited to the standard of a pound of hay and held up and examined from 50 to to 100 pounds live weight dally. Re­ 60 automobile parties returning. In duce the grain one-half on days when no instance was it found that the bag the horse Is Idle to avoid azoturia. | lim it had been exceeded, and only four were found who could not show their liceness, each o f whom claimed ENTRANCE IS CATTLE-PROOF they had a license but had come away Posts Arranged In Such Manner aa to without it. Admit Person, but Always Closed to Animals. r *: ! NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT I T o make a gate that a person can enter but cattle cannot go through, set one post In each direction about Portland— Wheat—-Bluestem, $2 per eight inches apart or so you can go bushel; fortyfold, $1.98; club, $1.96; through with ease, says a Minnesota red Russian, $1.93. writer In The Farmer. In a fence run­ Flour— Patents, $11.20. ning east and west, place one post on Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $37 per ton; shorts, $40; middlings, 47; rolled barley, $55 @ 57; rolled oats, $57. ~rr Corn— Whole, $82 per ton; cracked, W $83. Hay— Buying prices, f. o. b. Port­ Cattle-Proof Gate. land; Eastern Oregon timothy, $27 the west, one on the north, one on the per ton; valley timothy, $23(5:25; al­ falfa, $22.50 @ 24; valley grain hay, east, and one on the south. Nall the rails on the two posts east and w est $20; clover, $20; straw, $6.50. Butter — Cubes, extras, 45c; prime and you will have an entrance that Is firsts, 43c. Jobbing prices: Prints, \ always open for a person but closed extras, 47c; cartons, lc extra; butter- to a cow. Put one o f these gates I d your cowyard fence where you enter fat, No 1, 46@48c. Eggs — Oregon ranch, current re­ often. ceipts, 38c per dozen; Oregon ranch,! candled, 39@40c; selects, 43c. SWISS CHARD FOR CHICKENS Poultry— Hens, 18(518 Jc per pound; broilers, 20c; ducks, 12<518c; geese, \ Leaves Make Best of Green Food for 8@10c; turkeys, live, 20@22c; dressed, j Fowls, and Many Ralae It Espe­ 28@30c. cially for That Purpose. V eal— Fancy, 15J@16c per pound. Pork— Fancy, 22c per pound. Swiss chard is fine If not allowed to Vegetables— Tomatoes, 65(i£85c per get too large. It should be kept picked crate; cabbage, 2J(<;2Jc per pound; rather closely. The leaves make the lettuce, $1.75(52.00 per crate; cucum­ beet o f green food for the hens and bers, 40(550c per dozen; peppers, 6@ chickens, and many poultry keepers 7c per pound; beans, 7c; corn, 30c per raise it especially for this purpose. dozen. Potatoes— New Oregon, 2J@2|c per pound; sweet potatoes, 4@ 4ic. MOST NUTRITIOUS OF FOODS Green Fruits — Cantaloupes, stand­ ard, 75c(5$2.00 per crate; peaches, Sweet Corn la More Easily Dried 75c @ $1.00 per box; watermelons, Than Almost Any Other Vegetable $1.50 per hundred: apples, $1@2.50 — Plant Good Supply. perbox;plums, 75c(5$1.25; pears, $1.50 (5.1.75; grapes, $1.00(51.65 per crate; (By R. W. THATCHER. Minnesota Ex­ periment Station.) casabas, l j c per pound. Dried sweet corn Is one o f the most Hops — 1916 crop, 25c per pound; nutritious foods. Sweet corn Is more 1917 contracts, 40c. easily dried than almost any other gar- C a t t le - For these reason* Best beef steers....... .. .$ 9.00(5 9.75 den vegetable. Good beef steers........ . . . 7.50(3 8.75 very large amounts of sweet corn should be dried this summer for usa Best beef cows......... Ordinary to good , . . . . . . 4.00(5) 6.75 next winter. It can be planted on small tracts or In large fields and la Best h e ife r s ............. Bulls.......................... . . . 4.00(5 6.75 one o f the most easily cultivated gar­ 7.00(5! 9.50 den crops. C a lv e s ...................... . . . Stockers and feeders. . . . For table nse, «mall lots o f quick- 4.00@ 7.25 Hogs— maturing varieties like the Early Prime light hogs .. .. .. .$17.75(317.85 Golden Bantam should he planted ; but Prime heavy hogs . . . . .. 17.65(317.75 fo r drying for a winter u«e, the larger P i l f " .......................... . . . 14.00(316.00 and heavier yielding sorts, aa Coun­ Bulk ........................ try Gentleman and Stowell’a Elver- Sheep— green, should be used. Western lambs......... . . .$13.00(0,13.50 Let everyone who has a gardqn or Valley lambs............. . . . 11.75(512.50 field available plant plenty at sweet Yearlings................... . . . 10.00(310.50 corn to give a summer supply and ai W ethers.................... . . . 9.76(310.60 large excess to he dried fo r winter E w e s ........................ Li...........................! I i