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MOMIAY, Al tll tiT 1, ! DAJLT ROOtTB RIVKH UOl'HIKK LI! fll HTitH 1 dm - libUafc4 DftUy Eiet Saturday 1 B. B, YOORHIES. Pnk. aa Prpr. Gator t toaoa, Qruto Fa, Or M mom ! Mil Matter. ASVKRTIS1NO . RATES 4VfVMil oluan, fr lM 1M s jn mt Una : 4 ' J ! firl tTaI' rV-.O . m,-,W b.r sir... M.00 i or arrtar. Mr aath.; . ' . WSBXLT COVR1SR t. C nail. Mr Tr U.8 t ' . . t . , trwunicw. a.--. rv.il Mamuiiu- Pah. Aaia. vBru'Viir ASSOCIATED PREba Tm AMocUud Prw I irutly ml Aa niihllMllnl PHJUH iv uiw "vi r mt ll new diaeattk credited, to tt .,w..i orAilltxi ' la' thta MkMr sad also tk local nw pub Ufcd her, -'(p : V ' 111 rigkta of republication of po- rwaerred. MONDAY, AVG18T IS, IMS. OREGON WKATHER Tonight and Tuesday fair and 4 warmer. Qontle winds, mostly northerly. ' ' ''' 1 INSl TTAHLE X)R M1LUXG N'KIHMKM ' ' ' BIT GOOD. 81'BTAXTI.Ui . . . POULTRY FbOD WR ARK I'KRSHTTKU BY H AMWTBATIUSI TV 8RIX HIS LOT X)H THIS H'RPOHH I, . .i t i wo .. KINNEY QVAUTT FIRST I. lilt! tiiiit ' sad tas floor of Ui iff, r story wsro a McH. h.H n. I ui. s K tl ksvs ,a,horti kudu am also sup Ullud ilthi Diottm jxils and sldo csr and 111 thai sy I csn get around (or wo hv quits a lams ipai-o to cover. Whin th' big Riins 0 oft It seems at If sn rsrthqusks Is ihsklng ths ground. ..Ths blsst alons from tks xilodlng shall li enough to brsk ths gists in Ihs windows' and Ihs flying glass and . broken ileei of wood Is enough to liisks It dfslrsble to kep cover aaless there is some rel necessity to' l out. The gss the fiends send over Is uro. (Oine gss. "It Is detected at We and with the first breath the tfflclenry develops, In its officers either a sns of humor nor the graces of a good sport. PROFESSIONAL, BASEBALL, "Professional ball, aa everybody knows, la to be suspended, presum hl for the term of the war. Its . , oasalng Is now a matter of days. By September 1, at the latest, tbl a-rcat iDortint- Institution that has long' filled so b'g a place ln Ace? lean life wi'l p: ss quietly out ot tx lstence. Will It come back? There la no doubt that It will. Its character, however, may be somewhat changed. It is to be hoped, at least, that cer tain undesirable features" will be eliminated. The game has been so wretchedly commercialized that as a matter of cold fact there is today lit tle genuine "sport" left In It, A team has long since ceased' in any way to represent the city it stands for on the score board. Play ers have become mere hired men, not playing a game so much as working a trade for the benefit of "magnates" ' with whom baseball is a mere busi ness, conducted for the most part along merciless business lines. A player's independence is almost wholly gone. Specialized skill is paid far beyond its real worth. VVin ' nlngs or losses may be Inordinately large. . The whole thing is a big commercial gamble, based on the ex ploitation of a sport essentially pop ular and admirable, but growing less so year by year. This deterioration bag had its ef fect on the public. A calm observer la driven to the conclusion that pa- , trons themselves are not such good sports as they used to be. l! ,, It Is well that we are to be thrown . .back, for a while, upon amateur baseball. The reversion will do the "game a world of 'good. When pro fessional ball Is resumed, there may be brought back into It some of the wholesome, invigorating amateur spirit that it has lost. COMPENSATION "Fortune never comes with both hinds full," remarks a pessimistic editor. "You notice that when they told us we could use mora wheat they also told us we must use less sugar." . True enough. But there la a more optimistic point of clew than that. You notice that Just as thty told us wo must use less sugar they also told ua we could use more wheat. Why should we use such hlgh-du-tln' term as "Franco-Amerlisns?" The Americans are Yanks, and the French aro Franks. Why not call them collectively "Yank-Franks?" Having familiarise Europe with "shlrtsleeye diplomacy," America Is now surprising her with an exhibi tion of shirtsleeve fighting. , ' And there doesn't seem to he any objec tion to either. PAT KK.RX 1IAI TO HAVE KXCITKMEXT OF NOME KIXI Fort Bliss. Tex., Auf. 12. Pat Kern late private In the Eighth cav alry, is a soldier of fortune. The urge for excitement drives him to where fighting is In proKres9. While garrisoned here with his troop Kern became an expert machine, gunner Ordered to the Big Bend district ot Texas, routine drills grew Irksome so he and bis "bunkle" deserted went absent they say In the army Across from Presidio was a Mexi can federal garrison at OJInaga being beseiged by Villa's forces. Kern and his comrade were placed in charge of the two broken machine guns They dismantled these, reassembled them and made one good, working machine gun of the parts. With this they mowed down Villa's men until the federals evacuated the town leaving the two Americans still man ning the machine gun. They escaped, recrossnd the bor der and surrendered to the com manding officer at Presidio. While serving a term In the prison stock ade here on the charge of desertion. Kern escaped, went to Mexico, was last seen golni; south on a freight train witn France and the war as his objective. SOLblERLEttERS rvy good and maofc comes from tks wessttPd tvorihwwt i Tha i.aalmon wtuir familiar i,whn 1, tk raipr showa Washington or l)rKpu, ih stala rrom,wh!h Ibsy coma pakd already to oat. l & cutfee la one of th much destrsd drluks, mil H la very welcome. Sometimes Inert la only French i-offes. . .. .. This la the last day In June and It aoema strange Indeed to bo Hearing tha heavy woolt.undr'lutbia, out t did not hv that on It would tut b comfortable,, and th thin under wear whloh la Mnesttry l horns at this tlaio, of,)i, would not .do-at II. 1 1 am wearing a full thick wou combination suit from nsrk to an mssKs are ia ,o.u.ua .ouuu -"'u kles. then hava very be.vy wool not rewgnls. your son when wearing army unform of hwy wM m-n a imoa. .. ....,, , C.U(U ,nd of IfcoM deep sea diver, wh.n U 1 m ,n J,hllUlphlll.i Tn.B , 11V. .r.uj i. .,.--- i.-.in,,. -.r.iinaH rnnn.l m THEY SAW THE JOKE 1 A British correspondent at the front sent back to tlie London daily ae represented, a little story that rouses a smue oi sausiaction. . tic had seen a column of German troops headed, by the way, by 30 German officers extending a mile In length and marching in the general direc- uon or fans. That Is, they were some of the German troops recently made prisoners by American fight ers at Chateau-Thierry. , As they were passing through a mall French village the Inhabitants could not resist crying out sarcastic ally, "Nach Paris?" Some of the common soldiers actually grinned appreciatively . and answered, "Ja kohl!" which phrase and grin may bo freely translated Into the Ameri can, "You said it." The officers, it should be noted, Jid not 'reply or mf)e. Prussian POLITICAL CARDS (Paid Advertisement.) . MRS. JOS. MOSS Independent Candidate for County Clerk Amy Booth Holmes Democratic Candidate' for County Treasurer LESLIE SALT flavors &II lbs food evealy ifs ai wonderful aid to cooky The following' tntcresttng ' letter was received by Joshua L. Given of thta city, from hl son, Major s.uis B. R. Given, of the American Lxyo- dlllonary Forces,. .. ; .'.? . Somewhere in t rance, 4 Juna SO, 11S. Dear Father;. ' This is k very pretty dav. Protty 1 say aa the sun is shlulng and the sky clear .and a gentle wind blow ing. The roads ar dusty and when an auto paases there is a great cloud ot fine dust over everything. I have sent you a package which when you open will show you where I am, not that there Is any state ment at all or any reference to loca tion. 1 mean It will snow you no close I am to the German lines, for the package contains a German sol dier's cap. You csn see for your self the kind of head-coverings the fiends use. They certainly are a set of fiends. We have moved , a little und the country is very nice. The old church where we were, was selected this morning by them for a target to which they directed their fire at a time when, If there were any peo ple at all about they would likely be In-church at the time. They nheli- ed that pluce during the time when the people would be In church; that Is they shell It from 6 o'clock to 9:30 o'clock a. m. What fiends to select that time to shelp a churcn, and why should the church be shell ed at all? That Is the way they did when they shelled Paris. They struck the chunh on Easter Sunday and killed many who were there at that time. Fixing machines are over us many times during the day.. They look us over and take pictures of us, and some times drop bombs from their place In the air. The other day J wag out, and the machine would not go. I was In my motorcycle side-car and I was in the woods. While the driver was trying to fix It so It would run there ame a German Bhell singing and screeching and lit. In the wooda and'I said to him: "This certainly Is Dot a healthy place for us at this time.'-': In a very little time after, another.' came singing over and lit still closer and I wild, "Now I know it Is not a healthy place," and climbed over the sldo of that car in short order and he gath ered up his tools as rapidly as he could for we were In almost perfect darkness and we pushed the car to the side of the road, and lit out of that place. The air was resounding with the shelling of both our own and the enemy, batteries. One pla'-.c where I had a room the shell lit out-i sldo of my window In the garden and the potatoes certainly were a mess. Some of the shells are certainly big ones I can assure you. The hule they make when they strike the ground and explode is big enough to bury a small house. They make a funnel shape hole and the dirt and stones fly. I was in a certain place the other day when the Huns start ed to shell and the dirt and stones flew in all directions. One shell struck about 12 or 15 feet from a tree and the blast from the explo sion was so great that almost every leaf was shaken from that tree arid it stood there just bare stalk and stems. You can hardly realize that, but you could if you had seen those bare stems, the leaves lying on the ground underneath and the branches looking as If they had had the leaves picked off by hand. One man was out on the road sometime ago riding one horse and leading another when a piece of shell struck one horse In the neck, passed through and hit the other horse In the neck and both fell right down .there and the rider was not hurt. One shell struck In the roof of the house where some of the men of my medical department had sleeping quarters and the roof alt water. .The gas irritate the' yea and they get rtd and tor and! water t great deal. That effect 106 n I wears off under treatment when' . k - ..I... k.. k..n .11. hi a...i inv KBiaa n mcu hiii ' niaterlal other kinds ot gas set up Irritation of. alt of ths breathing organs and I have seen some patients, with very aara avmntnma. I Rabbits are very plentiful her In thla country. . Thy ar kept by the different village people as chickens r kept al home. They seem to be very tame and are very good. I hav had ths lady where 1 have my room prepare one for me the other night and It was very, very good. It was sweet, firm and very tender meat, different from that whjch we have st home, and they here do not wait until the fall weather to do their eating. Eggs are expensive and not particularly easy to obtain. They cost usually from 75c to II per dozen. For some time we were Is sued French ration. In plnre of the standard V. S. army ration, but now we are getting the regular V. 8. ra tions. Tho officers have the moxt difficulty In getting good food. The enlisted men have good food, but the .officers must provide for them nelves and that Is not at all engy. We buy what we can at some of the stores and some of the foods tliero arj reasonable, and some expensive. much of food Is canned a,nd comes from the U. 3. .That type of food Is legs from ths ankles to Just below the knee and with high sho a spurs to end the outfit. Ot ruurse there la very heavy coat of same and the cost has a high UjdlUt ftoIlM Uefc ttutt't it U !" Thr is no iu about with any of lh unlforan nix. . U Hi overcoat Is worn In tk tail on slightly rool days or nignia. It must m buttoned entirely fro ths top to th bottom. You woul4 be surprised t all th things carry with us whn r ou th rosd. W hv " HrPf bolt which I big brosd lethr blt bout Ihs wilst nd HjHw arrowsr lrp 4ictn , th r shoulder. Then w nvfi ,ntsp c of ()ealhr hung from one, oft nnr hcjulders. md, bla mh oyr th other. Mo.,ln ddltJon, I h an officer' medlrsl belt which U great bid bml of !lffernl ItynM which might be needed In treatment. On Iod of lh hf.M w wear l helmet for protection against ! flying shrapnel or hll fragment Thepi helmet ars about the moat uncomfortable thlnge I have evar put on. Grants PassJ&LCrescent City Stage Co. W. T. Ilreen, ITopr. H. OldVIIng, A grill Big' Pierce Arrow Cars orrtrc JiMWphlne Hotel Mock Telephone iitfH-J antl Hi:l Easy Riding Full Line of Auto Supplies TIRES--A11 Sizes C. L. HOBART CO. PRINTING ... ' THAT PLEASES 1 WE DO IT.