OFFER .AID TO UNCLE SAM
PO S T Q F F I C F
1 90rota Would G!vo Treasure and Serv
ices to Help the United States
Win the War.
unow now your boy lives in camp— how he trains— how he
pUyr—whai hit surroundings are. Pictures will tell you these
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Those wild men o f the mountains
o f the island o f Luzon, the hardy,
brown-skinned Tgorots, have gone to
the caves and hiding places, where
they buried their treasure in thé
long ago, before Dewey broke the
shackles o f Spanish rule, and have
unearthed sacks o f Spanish and
Mexican coins and carried them over
mountain trails to Gov. Hilario Lo
gan as their Liberty loan contribu
tion, relates the Manila Bulletin,
which also says that not only did
they give their treasure, but they of-
iered their services to Governor Gen
eral Harrison, and are anxious to go
to France and help the United States
win the war for freedom.
When one stops to consider the
barbaric life that the Igorot still
lives, this offer o f treasure and
service to Uncle Sam is all the more
remarkable. For the Igorot is still
very much himself and is totally dif
ferent from all his other Philippine
brothers. He is a mixture of savage,
barbarian and civilized people.
Although primitive in their plant
ing and harvesting, the Igorots have
mastered all the details of irriga
tion. This is the source of their pros
perity. They have terraced all the
mountain sides and raise two crops
of rice a year.
age custom^ o f s wild people, the
Igorots are patriotic to the Ameri
can flag, and want to go to the
trenches for the Great Apo.
That’s die tide of an old war song. Its a
cheerful song and we can sing it again now
We’re all looking forward to that day when the
boys will come marching home, victoriously, but in
the meantime you can help them by saving food, sav
ing fipl, and saving on clothing.
All-wool clothes save the most for you. They
wear a long time and you’ll not have to buy them so
often. - You’re certain of this quality at this store and
expert tailoring, too, we guarantee it absolutely^ The
latest Springtime styles are here now, made by
Hart Schaffner & Marx.
New clothes call for a new hat to m stck. You’ll And here
the smartest selections o f new Spring hat styles in town.
The neckwear this season is rich in new coloring.
OBSERVANT
M iller M ercantile C o
Its courses o f study are arranged to give that broad cul
ture which should be the possession o f every intelligent man
and woman, which includes Philosophy, H istory and
P olitical Science, the Languages, B iblical Litera
ture and H istory, M athem atics, B iology, Chem istry,
WHY 1APAN IS S0JCR0WDED EXPLORE SITE OF 0L0 CITY
Physics, Public Speaking, Hom e Econom ics, M usic.
Area of Eastern Island Empire la
Small, With Little Arable Land
Looked To as Food Supply tc Take tho
“ and Big Population.
Present Place of Beef, Pork
and Mutton.
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Last year a Com m ercial Course was added, which
proved to be popular.
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When we grasp the smallness o f
Address the President, Levi T. Pennington
ia the way you receive our bread. And
it ia delicious. Made from the highest
grade flour in a clean bakery, it leaves
nothing to be desired. Try a loaf to
day and you’ll want it again to-morrow.
Our pies and cakes, too, are fresh every
day.
N e w b e rff B a k e r y
J. H. SHERLOCK. Prop.
The Smithsonian excavations
near
watery grave hy swallowing him and * * readily understand why the land
returning him to land none the *•
crowded. Japan proper in a
worse for hi« gastric experience. The narrow and diminutive country. Its
Professor Nearsight— Dear me I
whale is going to carry its good work area of roughly 150,000 square milea
miles
How up-to-date the zoos are today!
is
somewhat
smaller
than
that
of
h ig h e r and do quite a bit in saving
Why, this one actually has a sub
California,
while
its
population
is
civilization if the leading scientists
way!
o f the nation have their way.
j twenty times as great, observes Asia.
The whale doesn’t know it, but he ; Moreover, like Italy, Japan is chiefly
is very good to eat He doesn’t know : a country of mountains and its arable
that he’ s to grace American boards 1 ^*nd under cultivation amounts to
and loose beef and pork and mutton ord.v some 25,000 square miles, a
fo r the fighting men and the starv- ^arm area k*ss than one-half of the
ing combatants overseas, but he is.
single state of Iowa. It follows that
The oil for which he used to be JaPan is the classic land of intensive
killed by whiskered Newfoundland- agriculture. Its dwarf farms are not
ers with spears is the least valuable really farms at all in our sense of
o f ius possessions now. It is the rich 1 the word, but gardens. There are no
steak that covers his bones that pastures, no barnyards, but merely
America wants.
i little squares of land, now covered
d. L. V A N B L A R IC O M
Staple and Fancy G roceries
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
We please the most particular. Phone us a grocery order and se«
If our prompt service doesn't surprise you. 'We want your trade,
covering the ancient rains o f Ha-
waiku. Hawaiku waa one of the
“ Seven Cities o f Cibola,” and, al
though now a ruin— almost obliter
ated until these excavations began—
was a scene of human activity, when
Coronado passed that way in 1542.
It will require at least three years to
complete the work. The expedition
employs 20 Zuni Indians. Hawaiku
ruins lie in a valley 12 miles west o f
the village where the Zuni tribe now
lives, near the Arizona border. The
main walls o f the rains originally
were massive, but. composed o f adobe
— a material which soon crumbles un
less frequently repaired— they now
lie in a shapeless pile. Beneath this
pile the walls of the ground floors
The enthusiasm for whale meat is with water’ now filled ™ th mud dl7 _ remain well preserved, however, and
now spreading to all parts of the j in* in the 8un- and now ^ idly green these the expedition is now endeavor
country, having received great im-i
the beautiful rice plants. These ing slowly and with extreme care to
petua by a unique dinner given re-i httle, I * 4«1* 8 of tcrraced and ,rn - uncover.
cently at the American Museum o f! ***** land have nothm* m common
Natural History in New York, where I " lth our l«0*acre farms In Japan
CO NSIDERED WONDERFUL.
some fifteen o f the nation’s most I the average agricultural family (and
Bacon— My wife’s got a most won
prominent scientists and publicists
are five and a half milho" 8 of
,
dined on the sea mammal.
them) occupies only two and three- derful parrot.
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quarter« acres. Only one family in
Egbert— What’s bo
wonderful
about it?
“ Why, when she’s talking to it the
Sailer, Realizing He Faced Almost Cer
bird manages to get a word in edge
tain Death, Did Not Hssitate
wise.”
When Duty Called.
8POOFING TH E MAJOR
W hen in Need of a Plom ber
Amazing how ignorant English
folk
still are as to conditions in Aus
It is announced that the new wire
tralia,
though this war has enlight
less station at Destrellan will go into
ened
them
a little in this direction.
operation some time this month. Its
A
case
in
point. I was solemnly
equipment is sufficiently powerful to
asked
the
other
day bv a major in the
permit o f communication with the
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English
army
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whether wt have a
most remote o f the West Indian
money
system
now
in all our Aus
islands and with all vessels coming
tralian
colonies.”
from Europe, the United States or
I promptly replied, “ Oh, no— we
South America. It can also receive
go
to the grocer, ask for a bar of soap
messages from the Eiffel Tower, but
and
give a blue bead in exchange.
cannot send messages through to
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and
so
on.” The “ majah” was quite
Paris direct. However, by using tye,
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satisfied.—
Australian correspondent
intermediate stations o f Dakar and
in London Dailv News.
Bizerte, the Guadeloupe plant will
probably be able to forward radio
«D o you always keep a promise?”
grams to Paris. The Destrellan sta
“ I used to be a litlle careless,” con
tion is owned by the colonial govern
fessed Senator Sorghum. “ But Ger
ment, but, it je said, will be open to
many has made promise-breaking so
the public.— Scientific American.
unpopular that it’s no good in poli
tics any more.”
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Yamoreg Collection
J. H. GIBSON, Mgr.
“ What makes you so sure people’s
The only Abstract Books in
minds are on the war ?”
Yamhill County
“ So many are studying maps of
Yamhill County Abstract Co. Europe iustead of automobile
M c M iknvillb .
OaaooN routes,”
like a straw. Although we cruised
back and forth over the spot for
hours, he was never seen again.” The
gun was later lashed down by other
• seamen.
«Y ou must be so rich you don’t
know what to do with your money.”
“ Flag and standard makers ought
“ That used to be the case,” admit never to have a failure in their buai-
ted Mr. Dustin Stax. “ But I have ness.”
no such difficulty now. All I have
“ Why not?”
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to do is to get the paper and read tho
“ Because they are dealing in goods
war news.”
which are always going up.”
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