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page nro. DAILY ROGVE IUVEh COl'RIKK WKIIXKMII.IV, MAY it, 11)10, Daily Rogue River Courier. At Independent Republican Newt paper. United Preu Leued Wire Telegraph Serrloe A. E. VOORHIKS, Pub. and Prop. WILFORD ALLEN. Editor Entered at the Grants Paaa, Ore lon, Postofflca u second-elasa nail natter. On Tear tUx Months .... Three Month One Month 15.00 S.00 1.50 .60 WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1916. 4 OREGON WEATHER . " . f Tonight fair, light frost east 4 portion; Thursday fair; north- 4 westerly winds. 4 GROWING SUGAR BEET SEED. If the tests being made this season nnder the direction of Geo. Austin, cultural expert of the Utah sugar companies, should prove that the Rogue ralley can meet his anticipa tions In the production of sugar beet teed. It will have opened a new Indus try of great possibilities. The Utah companies have of late years been producing a portion of the seed for their own plantings In their own state, but much of the seed has had to come from Germany, Russia, and other countries from across the sea. Ac cording to Mr. Austin, this Imported seed costs 30 cents per pound with carriage added, though the home grown seed has been distributed among their own farmers at 15 cents per pound. That supplied the grow ers of the Grants Pass district Is Utah-grown seed, and was charged for at the rate of only 15 cents, though its market price Is fully double that now. The markets of Europe being closed through the war, beet seed has been at a premium this season, and It was only by coopera tion with the Utah people that It was possible to get enough for the Grants Pass factory. A yield of 1,500 pounds of seed can be reasonably expected from an acre, so that the possibility of profit Is much greater from this branch' of beet farming than even from growing beets for the sugar. FANCY UTAH RECLEANED ALFALFA SEED KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First UNDER-SEA ATTACKS BY GERMANS CEASE Washington, May S. Hope of de finitely disposing of the submarine issue before Sunday, the anniversary of the Lusitania sinking, waned to day when unofficial dispatches from Berlin said that the reply to the American submarine demands was not ready. In order to reach Washington by Saturday, the note should be cabled tomorrow night While this is pos sible, it is regarded as rather Improb able. It seems certain that when the note is cabled it will have the ap proval of all Germans, from the em peror to the people's representatives in the relchstag. There is no disposition yet, offi cials say, to set a time limit tor the answer. As long as Germany is ob viously seeking to solve the difficulty it is not likely that the United States will complain. Pending the reply submarines have refrained from their "present meth ods" against commerce. This inter pretation Is placed npon the cessa tion of attacks. It is believed that orders were sent to submarine com manders immediately upon receipt of the Wilson note. There has been a marked decrease in the number of attacks. Since Saturday not a single vessel has been reported torpedoed. A PLUNGE IN THE ROGUE. May is giving that perfect brand of climatic condition for which the Rogue valley is famous. A cloudless sky, with the mercury standing up in the 80s during the heat of the day, has made the more hardy youth seek the cool of the waters of the Rogue, and for the past few days swimming has been a more or less popular pas time with the boys. The season has been a bit more backward than was last, accepting the verdict of the boy as the test, for last spring the first of the bathers took their plunge the middle of April. It is not to be con sidered, however, that the Rogue bathing season is yet on in all of its glory, for there is a chill to the water that Ib but a few miles from the melt ing snows that will keep many from the plunge till later. Horn Tie. A sedate bnnker of Hamilton, Can ada, was sitting iu Ills office one morn ing when hla ten-year-old hopeful drifted In. bearing with .blm an ex pression of unutterable gloom. "Anything gone wroug. boy?" In terrogated the financier. "Why, at your age you mmlit to lie cheerful all I be time." I know it, Fir.nU: I know it," re sponded the yomiKster. "I'm doln' the best I can: but. honest. I bad a ter rible time up at the house with your wife this morning. Saturday Even ing Tost The Parental 3ulwark. "I'm going to 1 o burglar when I grow up." "Why, Jobnoy. Hint's very wicked, and, besides, burglars are sent to prison." "Not me. My father's a lawyer." St Louis Post-DiRpateb. Diplomat Defined. "What is a diplomat?" "X diplomat is n man who can steal your hat and coat nnd explain It so nicely that you give Mm your watch and chain." London Telegraph. Pretty Weak Finieh. Our Platform One home and one country, one puree and one wife, one faith end one husband, nnd one bat all ber life. Galveston News. AFTER EVADERS OF THE INCOME TAX Washington, May S. Secretary McAdoo is directed to furnish con gress with a statement showing whether 1320,000,000 is being annu ally withheld from the treasury by Income tax frauds and evasions. In a resolution offered in the house today by Congressman Keating of Colorado. McAdoo Is asked why ha has not recommended to the president that all Income tax returns be made public in order that fraud may be checked. Keating said he based his resolu tion on the charges made by Basil M. Manly, chief Investigator of the In dustrial welfare relations commission. Manly, in a published statement, declared that more than $400,000, 000 should be received annually, in stead of the $80,000,000 actually col lected. The resolution asks whether: Fifteen billion dollars was paid in wages and salaries during ii4, $500,000,000 being paid to men re ceiving $3,000 a year or more: whether more than $300,000,000 yearly above the $3,000 exemption Is received as Income from fees; wheth er $20,000,000 is received as Income from ownership of property and the conduct of business above the $3,000 exemption; whether incomes received by persons subject to Income tax total $20,866,000 and whether, with all proper deductions, the figure should be $14,500,000. Introducing his resolution, Keat ing said: "You may discount Manly's charges 50 percent and still have a Bum which makes all other frauds here tofore perpetrated seem insignificant. Three hundred and twenty million dol lars represents the Income of 600,- 000 workingmen, who have labored every day in the year. The nation's pension rolls are enormous, but the sum which Manly says the million aires of this country steal yearly could pay them twice over." Next week the Grangers, and Grants Pass will put on her Sunday clothes and her happiest smile for her most welcome guests. The Com mercial club and the organization of the Beavers are cooperating with the Josephine county granges In pro vldlng for the 'entertainment. The decoration of the city is In the hands of the merchants' association, and the chairman of the committee asks that every business house meet the de mands of the occasion as they ap pear. The official colors of the Grange are Pink, yellow and green in the lighter shades, and thnHe colors Bhould be carried as far as possible in working out decorations. The covetous man loses what he does not get. Seneca. BULGARIA AND TURKEY NOT SEEKING PEACE Berlin, May 3 (via Wireless to Rayvlllc). Reports that Bulgaria and Turkey are negotiating for peace with the entente allies are untrue, the Bulgarian official news agency declared today. The Geneva news paper La Suisse circulated the report. Cascade Linen The double package A 50c value This week only. 25c CLEMENS Sel!s Drugs 77z 0 jl&KaiSL Jtore Popular Jokes. The most popular Joke which has been published In any language In the history of the world Is stated to be that which appeared in an obscure cor ner of the Punch almanac for 1845. It read. "Advice to persons about to mar ry Don't.1" It would be Interesting to know wbo wus Its author. Another, founded, on a slinilur subject, was tho "Advice to persons who have 'fallen In love' Fall out!" One of the most bril liant things that ever appeared In our contemporary was the brief dialogue between au Inquiring child and bis im patient parent: "What la mind?' "No matter." "What Is matter?" "Never mlud."-Vesttnlii8ter Gazette. A Realittio Picture. A still life by Jan van lluysen In the museum ut The Hague was Injur ed, but It Is believed that the perpe trator was neither vandal nor thief. The picture represents u basket of fruit on which a number of Insects hove gathered. On n pale yellow ap ple, which Is tho centerpiece In the cluster of fruit. Is a lnre fly. painted so true to nature, so sny the ofllclals of the gullory. thut tbu canvas was In jured by Boino one who endeavored to "hJjoo" It nnd brought his enne or bund too close to the canvas. "A trib ute to the painter's genius," says the letter recording the fact, 'for yrhlch the work hud to suffer." Needed No Hinte. A man from tin- buck woods visited New York for the llrnt time and went into restaurant to have his dinner. All went well unlll the wulter brought him n napkin. The eyes f the Imrk ivo'idHimui fliinii-d, mid. pulling a six iliooter from bis hip pocket, ho told the waiter his mind. "You take that blamed thine away at once," lie said evenly.' "I reckon I iiiow when to use it handkerchief with out havlnK them darned hints thrown Hit." Detroit Free Pre. Letterheads at the Courier. EXPERTS IN TRACKING. Australian Native of Beth Sane Trained From Childhood. The Australian aboriginals are the finest trackers lu the world, Loudon Answers declares. On many occasions they have per formed feats which are almost beyond belief. But to them the work is quite habitual The boys art taught to track from birth. The women are Just as expert as the men. Horse tracks are child's play to them. They can track a boree at full gallop, Tbey can track anything possums, snakes. Iguanas, even beetles leave sufficient trail for tbem to work on. The standard of honor among these tribes Is high. When one of them breaks their strict code, fearing the wrath of the tribe, he bolts and, know Ing he will be pursued, uses all hla knowledge In an effort to elude those In search of blm. But It Is questiona ble If there Is a slugle case on record where he escaped. What might be called classes Is tracking are held for tho youngsters. The tutor will get them lu a body and then disappear Into the bush and do everything ho can to make them lose his trucks. He will tiptoe along fallen logs, swim a quarter of a mile along a stream, double on his tracks, and soon. Finally he returns to the boys, who then set out to pick up tho track. ACIDITY OF THE STOMACH. Diet Hint For Sufferers Afflloted With Thle Trouble. Acidity of the stomach and ulcerated atoniach are largely on tho increase lu both England and America. If statistics are to be believed. And Dr. Wlllard J. Stone points out in the Journal of the American Medical Association that tbme are the two countries iu which the consumption of sugar 1 greatest. Dr. Stone recommends au almost starch and augar free diet for persons troubled with acidity. He says the following articles of food may be eat en with aafety: Fresh fruit pulp or fruit juices, such as grapefruit, oranges, peaches nnd watermelon, without sugar; broth, soft boiled or poached eggs, flsb. chicken, broiled or baked meats, bacon, milk, tea, cream, butter, green vegetables, such as as paragus, spinach, cauliflower, water cress, endive, squash, carrots, turnips, lettuce, fruit and lettuce salads, with olive oil dressing containing a very small quantity of lemon Juice: Braxll outs, pecans or Alberts. The following foods are prohibited Candy, sugar, simps and condiments; tho fresh fruits which contnln more than 10 per cent carbohydrates, such as apples, pears, bananas cherries, cur rants, plums; of tho vegetables, peas, parsnips, beans, potatoes, com; tho ce reals, rice, macaroni, bread, crackers, cocoa, chocolate and coffee. Franklin at a Printer. A letter of Charles Wilson Fealc. wbo painted the first portrait of Wash lngton, Is dated Oct 23. 1814. and dis cusses Inventions, windmills, etc. In It be says: "Dr. Franklin when he was a young man went to Loudon and worked in divers shops and In different parts of the printing business. I board a curi ous anecdote of blm. He hired himself to work at press In nn olllcc. When a friend of tho owner of the press came to see hlm, the printer told his frleud that he was In grout wuut of a com positor and asked where lie could find one. 'I am much surprised that you should want a compositor when you keep a roan at the press (pointing to Franklin) who is tbc best compositor In London,' he said." Changed the Korean. Koreans were quick to quarrel In an cient days and won a bad reputation on this account. At one time, a histo rian explains, fatal quarrels became so frequent in the country that drastic measures were necessary. A law was promulgated ordering adult males to wear on all occasions a china bead dress shaped like an inverted flower pot It was impossible to fight when crowned with this fragile gear, and the penalties for removing It wero Be vcre. The first offense entailed fifty blows on the soles of the feet, and the second meant decapitation. This de cree had the most soothing effects, the nature of the inhabitants changed as if by magic, and Korea was railed the Land of the Morning Calm. - Wore Than Working. ' The stugo carpenter went to the thea. ter mnnager nnd asked for an Increase In his wages. The mnnager appeared surprised. "Why." he exclaimed. "I really don't see my way to giving you a ralso. You have nothing much to do. Half the time you are merely Htnndlng In the wings listening to tho piny." "Yes, sir," replied tho curpenter grim ly; "that's Just hV'-Plllsbiirgh Tele gl'Upll. ' Delay Explained, "What nre you doing then'. Ellen r "Excuse, nie, miss, but my apron cnuf.'ht lu the door," "But you left the room ten minutes agol" . - "Yes, miss, but I.only Just found It out." Passing Show. The Way It Ooee. "This Is an odd wny girls hnve of pelting Into society." "How Is It odd?" "Why, to get In they first bnve to come out." New York Jouriiul. IT'S Uncle Sam's natural resources that keep him prosperous an' contented. An' of 'em all I reckon VELVET is naturally tne most conicnuui. n V .Ha i -in i'i i ii i w TjVERV day more smokers are learn ing how greatly natural ageing Improves natu rally good Tobacco. VELVET is teaching them. A Narrow Escape. It was the woman's tlrst visit to the rtnemntocraph. For a loug time she gated In silent awe at the wonders of the screen, where all sorts of lmHssl ble things took place. She could hard ly believe the evidence of her own eyes. These things were real they were actually hapiwulng. Him stared with goggling eyes as miracle succeed ed miracle. Then s motorcar sppeared on the screen, coming Into sluht In the dis tance and racing along a country road at about a inilo a minute, straight out of the picture at the audience. Catas trophe seemed Inevitable, and she shrank back In her seat. Then, Just at the critical moment. It awerved aside and dashed out of sight. The old woman rose firmly to ber feet. Ignoring the protests of those be hind her. "Come nloug, Annie," she aald to her youthful niece. "It ain't aafo hero. That thing only missed me by a few Inches." Lnudou Answers. ! Inquisitive. j "What a tuethwll. ill follow you art, Dobbs." said Unhlw, who hud stepped Into Dohha' study during the tatter's ilmt'iu , "Why. what do you menu)" asked IHlhlM. I 'To think that you should lock all your drawers up when you are only . out for live minute. Tlsu't likely that anybody would meddle with your things." ' "Of course not." replied Pobb. "But sow ;Md you find out the drawers were locked ?"-I.omlou Mall STRONG EVIDENCE The Aeeldent Map. On the walls of a room at police headquarters lu New York city are large maps of tho live boroughs, These maps are covered with many large aul small pins of vnrlous colors. Kach color denote a particular kind of tie cldent The lurge headed plus retire sent fatal accidents and the small one minor accident. For example, a lurgw white headed plu represents a fatal automobile accident, while a small one of tho same color represents a slmllur but not serloiiH accident. In the sumo muniier a Inrse green bended pin Indi cates a fatal trolley cur accident. The map of Manhattan shows Hint a long stretch of Fifth n venue has au almost continuous line of a Ideuts. The Thir teenth precinct shows a greater num ber of accidents than any other. Tills precluct contains Delancey street, with tho upproach to the Williamsburg bridge and many narrow east side strects.-Hufety Engineering. 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