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TltlAV. .M'lJl'HT III, IUIT, TkOM TWO daily Mooxm Kirxn oovKna Ol ROGUE COURIER Pwked Daily tooe BaUrdny A. B. V0ORHIE8, Pub. and Propr. BXNJ. a IHELDON, Editor tend it ths Postofflee, OruU PtM, Ore m Mcond class mall mattsr. ADVERTI8INO RATES Dtenlav bmo. ner Inch ..lee Ul orneiaje.olum, per line 10 Bder. net line.- In DA1LT COURIER By mall or carrier, per year.... 1 1. 00 Rv mail or carrier. Mr month'.... .to WBSKLY COURIER lor Bill, Mr yr............-...l.oO MEMBER ; SUtt Editorial Association. Oregon Newspaper Pub. Am. , Atdlt Burean of Circulation. TTK8DAY, AVGl'ST , WIT. OREGOX WEATHER - , Weather tomorrow; Tttr A FEW ITEMS IN OUR STOCK FROM FOKKION LAND 8AM 8IUNU WO l'RKSKKVKD U1NGKK. CHOUSE A ItLACKWRIX'S CHOW CHOW, U1UMV8 A I. 8AVCK. . niXUKK MARMAIA1K. CKOMSK ItLACKWKlXS 1ICKLKK1 W A UM TS 8PAM8H 8P1UT8 IS PEANVT OIL. KISS! AN CAVIAR, t'KOSSK MjACKWKUS CHVTMKY. MORKL BRAND CAPERS. M'MllRK lit COKFKK. KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY , QUALITY FIRST ,F. CONGRESS AND THE PRESS It iniu probable that the war Bnance bill will Impose a keavy tax oa newspapers, on a baala applied to mo other Industry. The discussion over this natter at Washington sug gests that many Congrensmen feel pononal rancor at the newspaper press, the mult no doubt of real or fueled Injuries, In their own ex perience. The newspaper community may U ask itself what It has done to proroke this feeling of hostility. This does not mean that publishers and editors should fawn and cringe. But they are under the ordinary obliga tion to fhre fair treatment to the men who are tarring the country In Its law making bodies. No doubt many of the faults of Congress, at which we all rail, are fatlts Inherent In human nature and onr national character. Electing a ew set of Congressmen frequently does not help things a particle, and the same traditional tendencies re appear. Tet when all this Is said, it re mains true that Congress lays itself ripen to attack by persistence In practices contrary to common sense. Prominent among theee are the pork habit, the parcelling out of favors to districts, the log rolling spirit that leads men to Tote for each other's schemes la order to get their own through. Arbitrary tradition Ilk that called Senatorial Courtesy shield unfit men In office, and in time of war make It Impossible to secure dear cot action. The principal trouMe Is thai too many Congressmen are snxtous about their political future, too fear ful of defeat at the poll. They hirer and shake before rritlelsm. and Imagine that If the newspapers could only be bottled up, they could get by. So there grows up tn.nng the narrower type of Congressmen, an animus against the newspaper press, manifestations cf whl-h have been seen In some of these tavstlon propositions No man run advance hti political fortunes hy h Tettv spirit. The newspaper should sla.1 ly pay fair tax, b'.st thev shov.M r,.H he asked to par taxes levied or. pr'n djdes not applied to other enter prises . Oregon City Enterprise. KILLED STILL FLIES (By HENRY WOOD) United Press Staff Correspondent Paris Aug. 2 (By Mall) Adjutant Kdmond Thleffery, a Belgian aviator, who haa just distinguished himself by bringing down two German ma chinea tn tha same combat, has an other dlatinction of which today he is still the sole possessor In the entire aviation world. In the course of desperate aerial Bghta Thleffery haa himself been brought down no less than five times by his adversary, and has figured in the German official account of theee combats as having been 'killed. No other aviator has ever survived an equal number of defeats. Thleffery "s career Is one of the aviation romances of the war. With the German Invasion of Belgium Thleffery wss first mobilised ss a motorcycle messenger on the staff of General Leman. He was made pris oner, succeeding later in escaping into Holland, where he was Interned but from where he again succeeded tn eluding his guards and making his way into the Belgian lines. In July, 1915. he entered the avis tion service and tor a year and s half went through all the more im portant raids of the Belgian om bard in squadrons. By December, 1916. he won pro motion tnto a Bghllng squadron and during the first six months of 117 established tor himself a record al most without equal. On January it he flew over Brussels arousing the most unique enthusiasm on the part of the Belgian population still re maining there. He descended to within 75 feet of the city's stree and dropped leaflets assuring his compatriots of their nltlmste deliv erance. On March J5 he brought down hie first enemy machine. The second fol lowed Just eight days later for which he received a citation and the Croix ds Guerre. On July 3rd came his double ex ploit. He was returning from a re ronnaise of the enemy lines when he suddenly found himself confront ed with 14 German machines. Ely-, Ing straight Into the center of the German squadron Thleffery pfcVed his man and downed him. Picking a second he downed him in less than two minutes. With two machines taken out of the center of the Jer man squadron a "hole" was created big enongh for Thleffery to fly through their barrage, the remain ing i Germans refusing even to chase him. The fact that Thleffery haa been downed five times by enemy ma chines demonstrates his qualities as sn aviator rather than his lack of them. Each time that he has been "downed" he has been engaged tn the cluneal, deadliest combat with his adversary In which the latter merely happened to get the advant age, the "drop" as It were, that must come to every aviator once In awhile. SUSPEND SOLDIERS' DEBTS, Pennsylvania Law of 191 Haa 8 teed Teat In State Courts. Enlisted men In the national service. Including those selected for the army by draft, will be protected tu IVimsyi. vaula by what virtually amounts to a moratorium. There Is a law on the statute books t Pcnusylvsula, passed two years nspi which exempts men mustered Into stnte or national service from sny "civil process." It is of special importance aud Inter est to those wbo may be selected for the army sud who huve been anxious lest, due to a decrease in their earning power, they would not be sMe to meet payments on their homes and thus lose them. According to sutboritii-a uu realty law. the act of 1315 will prevent a building and loan association, for ex ample, from fotwloslns a mortes.ee held agnlnst a home owner drafted tnto the army for such period as he is serv ing In the a, my. regardless of whether the payments ou the mortgage are made as they become due. It will also prevent, the-e soth.'rtt 10.1 say, such Icial action as ejectment pro cecdlusa airalnst a soldier's family for nonpayment of rent while the lessor of the pmerty t In service. The Ruling Passion. "Jlbway Is en. h a ennrtnned fan that he applies liasotiall slnn to every con ceivable situation." "I've met men like that." "For Instance. Hie oilier day Jib way attended b;,t wr.s ected to lie s wedding ceremony. "Pie brMesrocin failed to show up. There was mu Ii excitement and confusion. Tbe bride was so angry she rowed she would marry any man ubo would take the missing briiicrwm's place." "Well, wetir "That was when Jlbway sang out. Ms there s pltu-b hitter preseutT Birmingham Ace-Herald. ron CATARRH 1 RAT FIYtR t Dossjlt CmfyitM Ohrtnoit a au cava Tonga Tuoco se Jss Boc Pickling Spices rariander Seed Ginger Runt iVIery Seed Whole Cloves 1'w.U Itixle Oaray Seed (inmad OnnJUni IM1I Seed Slick, Oniuunon Mace (imsiad tTores repper ( orn Ma4ard Seel Red Pepp llay lioaves fUark Pepper tiriMind MnMsnl Turmeric Demaray's Drug and Stationery Store MtstlMr TKMPI.R. liltWTS PSS P.KKH HI TK; AHMMli Tt lx l;i.l 1VI? SWVTY fot Hand, Ore.. Kn. i -.Vitoih haaters in the Va ifl - ror;het rcen nci t.- " r.tct :vst deer do not weir Sf ' -! t o'c-n f. V".t. hats and a'.k .-n c - v. :!! V members of tie ltr-omh A' ers' club are thrt oecr h'ir.t.-rs this season adopt the olJ-'asliiored plan of donnirt rUM -! h:n. o- self pn-terticn. TV.e'-r.-ol 'i!i gan" has claimed live in Ore cos . woods every Jr as far bark as the j oldest pioneer can remember. Second Hand Ford . 19 14 Fin? Crndition $275 C. L. Hobart Company A distinct, departure tu sclvQlltlc agronomy In the Rogue Klver val ley Is suggested In the purchase by the Vtah-ldaho Sugsr company of S5S acres of land known as the De Barr tract, lying 'between the city of Med ford and the Benson farm, which It will devote to exeperlmental work In the production of maximum yields of any crop It may desire to culti vate, devoting especial attention to sugar beet culture, by build ng up the soil. Manifestly, this cannot he said to be experimental, as agriculturists know it Is not an experiment to Im prove the strength of the soil for the better production of crops. But It is a departure In this valley for here the usual system hss bets to Impoverish the soil by the production of the same crop annually for In definite periods, without any thought of rotation or of adding strength by fertilisation to depleted soils. The I'tah-Idaho Sugar company paid $25,000 for the OoBarr tract because It Is Ideal tn many respects for demonstration purposes. , Us ag rlculturlst will begin with a variety of crops, cover crops being used where most needed by Impoverished conditions of soil. Fertlllters will ibe employed freely and the results care fully noted. Part by part, the farm will be restored to Its native strength to which will he added scientifically those elements with which nature did not originally supply It. Humus Is important among these. Modern methods of tillage will be employed: and the effect In addition-j al yield and Income will be compared 1 with the cost of the Increase ever, those of slovenly methods of sgrl rulture so generally used In th. vsl-, ley. Medford Msll-Trlbune. HIDING THE WARSHIP. tmeke Soreens and Hew They Are ' Used In Nsvsl Engagsnttnts. The tuauner In which the density of tbe smoke acreeus Is regulated during a battle Is Interesting. By partly shut- , tfaur off tbe draft to her boilers a bat tleship Is made to emit clouds of smoke which screen her from tbe enemy. But how can the stokers, who are fsr be low deck, see the sts'-ks so that tbey ' csu regulate the smoke clouds to tbe , proi'cr density J By an electric "eye," i says Popular Science Monthly. The eye is placed near the top of the smoke- , stack, and It records the exact density 00 electric meters conveniently U-ated In tbe boiler room. This remarkably clever eye Is simply a wire coll of srk-nlum whk h Is car ried In a bonslug on the Inside of the smokestack walls. An electric light. In another bousing directly uposite. plays Its beams of light iusrcly upoo tbe wire. Now. seleuiuin, ss is well known, ' has tbe peculiar property of changing its resistance to au electric turreut when the light falling upon It changes. Tbe weaker the light the greater the resistance, and vice versa. Evidently, then, the denser tbe smoke emitted through the stack the weaker tbe light that gets through the smoke from the electric lamp and falls upon ( the selenium. By connecting tbe sele- nlum with an t lectrtc meter aud tbe ! ship's lighting n.a'ns the electric cur- ! rent gvliig through tbe meter will be lowered by tbe increased resistance. The meter Is very rensitive and shows tbe slightest chunks In smoke density. Moreover. It Is n,l' vati-d to Indicate exactly what the actm I noVe d.Ms!ty Is, so that Ihff M"ers cui irr-ilate the cutoff of tbe draft to a nWty. Olass dcte are placed In front of the lamp and of tbe S"'r-tilu:n coil to protect them frra soot. The plates sre kept clean by streams of cum pressed sir diiT-iteil aca!n--t thetu. Splcndid Lubricating qualities" PAIGB McKlnnrt Cwd M.nwlV , Phnl "we cannot speak (00 highly of the spbadid lubricating quali Iks of Zcndens." WINTON Tk Wlnltut IV.Sirt yrtulwe " Wa use Zerulene tstsiuivsty. It is giving tntirs sa(Ut-tiun,H aiEVROLET FORD I. W. Iimii Co. LAnk ''Ztrokne is our bake iiir Qwvroiet cars." fthf Attrrtnur Slri To , Lot AntW "c(tUii on ero lene sflsr esteniive trt." ZEROLENE The Standard Oil for Motor Cars Endorsed by Leading Car Distributor. brraiu the rwords of their service departments show that Znlne, cormtly refined from California aphali-hM crude, gives perfect lubckalioo lesa WMr, nwre power, leaa carbon deposit." vwm ffTrrrwovrvana m Out srivkfl tf!H3n. .. Si ,1. V STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Cliwnla) H,, UHtT U fl- Let Electricity Saye You Labor and Money CHURNING mg 108-J 623 G STREET. CRANTS PASS. OREGON Danner in Hase. In a Vermont lowu tln-y ti !1 of a suit or who. after sotie year of devotion, '.iifiltc pro;i-d to tbe 'jdy of his Hut. Henry," prietl the lady. Iliis Is really snddent Yon hd U tter riittwi week to think it overr -Very well, my dear." said Henry - V1.1L after di.-e reflcclion. he added. "IxTbape It wo'thl le ss well If I -th.u:ht It over myself st the same . t r- t..-l. l 1 luir. w. J. J. Powers, of Grants Pass, will buy all kinds of JUNK, old automobiles, rnachinery, hides, feathers, wool, furs, old rubber. Heavy copper, pre lb, 17c op Sheet aluminum ...SOc light cincr, 14c W ire aluminum 2.V 1W brass lac lUgs, wr muii Olc Veflo brass ...lOc np (iwt Iron . jc Ught hrasa 07c np Wrought Iron and steel He IVwW 1 5c Itiihbcr boot, ahoea, auto at aluminum Mc tires SHc up In as know, lhrop a Card. Apply Western Hotel J. J. POWERS, GRANTS PASS, ORE. IMd all jnnk till Posters arrixes In town In 10 dnya. N"w at ItiiMIe, Oregon. Imaginary. -"stber." said t!ie lltth- tiy. "every now and then I hoar yoa ta'.VInc a!;it smelssly wbo a old emvh to know s-:ter." "Yes. my lie;" "What si.-e Is rl.at. father V" And tbe old fr: tliman after some t!.. relit nTli"-: "My son. thn. l-n't say mi. h thiiiC It's like the fo c!'-:i te-pr.r,l.r mytho lorlcsl." Cssjr bf Ctimvsr.wv "Y'n cuiNt pi t j itr si: ..(iiir to te atee-V MM th. fsnifl -i:;i n "tl'td ' f 1' e ' ! t " r, ; ' ' '"' f'h'tgglns. "I f'-rl l-' v.v if I 4-:. t t -to crsiv) tu'iOT a mot-ir-sr si J lie on tny lis k to lit the ojk-"-Wal-inc-t a !sr Etvflopei at tbe Tonrler. Do You Appreciate Fresh Eutler ? IVER BANK Creamery Butter is Fresh "And it's GOOD Bullcr" tyladc. in Grunts Pnrs